[boost] Re: Fixed-Point Decimal Formal Review

From: Mike Cowlishaw (mfc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-25 07:32:45

Dirk Schreib wrote:
> I completly agree with your your statement.
Always nice to hear :-).

> We used the proposed IEEE754 layouts for our own number class
> with some minor changes. The proposed format seems to be ideal
> for hardware but was a little bit to slow for a pure software
> implementation.
>
> For every feature in the specification we asked "Is there a
> performance penalty even if I don't use this feature" and removed it
> if necessary.
> The resulting class is quite fast (not as fast as a fixed point
> decimal class).

Any documentation of what you ended up with?

Mike Cowlishaw