When will you implement cent and ucent?
user1234
user1234 at 12.de
Mon Apr 11 07:44:04 UTC 2022
On Monday, 11 April 2022 at 07:24:41 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
> On Friday, 1 April 2022 at 12:06:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> This is why a 128 bit type is absolutely key, it unlocks the
>> ability to write larger integer types in a way that will allow
>> the compiler to generate good code for it.
>
> Does LLVM support that width good code gen? Intel/AMD have some
> instructions intended for higher precision math
> ([ADX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_ADX),
> [MULX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_Bit_manipulation_instruction_set#BMI2)). They also have some instructions meant to be used for crypto, e.g. [CLMUL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLMUL_instruction_set).
LLVM 128 type (named `i128`) on x86_64 produces standard
instructions, e.g more or less the D library implementation with
better code gen, [example].
[example]: https://godbolt.org/z/vfYhc3bTn
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