Re: I vote NO on Motion P1788/M0024.02:RoundedOperations
On 2011-05-15 09:50:30 -0600, Kreinovich, Vladik wrote:
> Since Dan is among the most knowledgeable in this group about the
> standards language, I concur with him and vote NO. Just like Dan, I
> like the idea of encouraging the manufacturers to implement these
> operations, but I am worried about the language. If the terms are
> changed, I will gladly vote Yes, because clearly operations with
> direct rounding are extremely important.
There is no need to encourage them. The customers will do it for you:
if a processor is slow (for them), they will not buy it.
But of course, this depends on the customers. A customer who will
mostly play games on his machine will probably not need hardware
interval arithmetic.
And more importantly, implementations of floating-point operations
belong to IEEE 754, not P1788.
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