Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it
Date: 2013-06-12 15:12:58
Message-ID: 9127.1371049978@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 12 June 2013 01:35, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> On the whole, I think the effort would be a lot more usefully spent on
>> trying to make the existing NUMERIC support go faster.

> Did you have a specific idea in mind? Or an area of investigation?

As I said further up, we should look at Intel's library and see if we
can learn anything that would help the NUMERIC code.

regards, tom lane

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