Re: Decimal Floating Point Library Beta

From: Matt Borland (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-31 11:24:51

> Note that ultimately, as long as the decimal64_fast et cetera types
> have conversion functions:
> - uint64_t toBID() const; // converts to IEEE 754 BID representation
> - uint64_t toDPD() const; // converts to IEEE 754 DPD representation
> And if you can construct the decimal64_fast types from the BID64 and
> DPD64 representations:
> 

> Then I suggest that nobody really needs the non-fast types. :)
> 

> i.e. When I want to encode, decode, store that representation I can.
> 

> But I would never want to incur the overhead of decoding and encoding
> it on every arithmetic operation.
> (I can't imagine who would)
> 

> Glen

Glen,

I have opened issues for adding those conversion functions to the fast types. Thanks for the suggestions.

Matt