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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Misc: Applications of small floating point formats.
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 05:53:48 -0000 (UTC)
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EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> schrieb:

> With FP128 will there again be a significant difference in speed to
> FP62 or FP32 (including transcendentals)? Seems there would be because not
> every HW implementation is going to implement a full width multiplier.

The only major architecture I'm aware of that uses FP128, POWER,
chose to use their decimal FP unit do do it on the side.

This makes multiplication _really_ slow, unfortunately.