Re: P1788
James Cloos wrote:
> I presume the reference is to the AVX512 register file and instructions.
Yes it is; I found it via Google. A quick check found nothing that would
support Complete Arithmetic directly, but I think Ulrich's point was that
today's processors have no difficulty supporting very wide registers.
A Complete Format for Binary64 would need nine ZMM registers (out of 32),
so in principle it could even support a three-operand Complete Addition
out of registers. Now someone needs to convince Intel to add the missing
circuitry...
Michel.
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