Floating point numbers fitting into SCM object

2024-11-13 Thread Tommi Höynälänmaa
Has anyone considered implementing floating point values with e.g. 60 bits that could fit into an SCM object? They would be more efficient than double precision numbers and almost as accurate. - Tommi Höynälänmaa -- Kotisivu / Homepage: http://www.iki.fi/tohoyn/ Sähköposti / E-Mail: tommi

Re: Floating point numbers fitting into SCM object

2024-11-13 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
Hi Tommi, I haven't seen it discussed and don't rule out that it could have some value, if suitable space still exists in the current SCM encoding of types. Personally, though, my hopes are that eventually most actual computation in Guile code would be done unboxed---which is a compilation proble