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A comment on John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better. Parent comment

Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by mkettn on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:27AM (#20391449)
As far as I read https://posithub.org/docs/Posits4.pdf there are FPGA implementations. Also in systems where floating point arithmetic isn't supported in hardware (i.e. Arduino Uno) you rely on soft fp.
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Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by klingonopera on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:48PM (#20394603)
Benchmark performance analysis of accuracy and speed on AVR platforms would indeed be very interesting and an actual, possible, immediate implementation scenario...
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