80 bit reals

Matthew Fluet fluet@CS.Cornell.EDU
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:47:57 -0400 (EDT)


> Before the notion of real being 80 bits is frozen into code, I want to do
> some tests to see how much it will cost us performance-wise (using C).

No worries.  I don't want to muck around with adding new primitive
datatypes until the SSA->machine->x86 route is running smoothly.