Comment on Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?Comments−nyrikki2yHardware Decimal floating point is very useful, both for legacy and new financial systems and some numerical problems you need improved stability on.−RustyRussell2yDropped in the latest Power chips I believe.I had a friend who worked on it: he called it simply "decimal floating" because there was no point :)−bear86422yAlthough frustratingly loosing support with the new open xlc compiler!
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Hardware Decimal floating point is very useful, both for legacy and new financial systems and some numerical problems you need improved stability on.
Dropped in the latest Power chips I believe.
I had a friend who worked on it: he called it simply "decimal floating" because there was no point :)
Although frustratingly loosing support with the new open xlc compiler!