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From: msf@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Michael S. Fischbein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Want Fast Double Precision?
Message-ID: <158@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Jan 88 22:43:49 GMT
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Reply-To: msf@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Michael S. Fischbein)
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
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>> Probably, but... I wonder how much interest might be out there for
>> a true double-precision floating point engine - one that did 64 bit

The HP Precision Architecture hardware floating point is faster at
double precision than single precision.

I believe that is because it is 64-bits wide and must add a truncation
instruction for single precision.  Anyone who knows the internals out there?
		mike
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