Re: FAQ 4.2 Why is int() broken?

Martijn Lievaart wrote:
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:32:41 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:

On 2008-07-30 19:50, John W Kennedy <jwkenne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter J. Holzer wrote:
On 2008-07-30 14:03, John W Kennedy <jwkenne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
However, Intel is dragging its feet on adding decimal floating point,
per IEEE-754r.
If there truly is demand for this, then that's good for IBM. They can
sell lots of Power6 boxes.
And z/Architecture.
z/Architecture isn't exactly mass-market.

Well, not mass market, but gaining in popularity pretty fast. You won't have one at home presumably, but all gigs I worked at the past ten years had several of those. Yes several, running multiple virtual machines.

OTOH, those virtual machines typically ran AIX (or linux) and did not take advantage (AFAIK) of the decimal floating point at all.

But the decimal floating point feature is much less than ten years old, so it's natural that it's not going to get much use until languages start to be updated to support it. It's going to take a while in typed languages, and untyped languages like Perl and Ruby are going to need some philosophical examination. PL/I is about the only language that was prepared.
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