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by inigyou
2 days ago
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It's still challenging to implement with hardware support but you don't notice because it challenges Intel instead of you. There is a reason that no instruction set since x87 implements transcendentals - and x87 did them in microcode. |
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Older numerical libraries such as cephes had to work with heterogeneous non-IEEE floating point implementations: you can still see remnants of VAX tests in the docs, for example. That, too, must've been quite a struggle