21 Jan
2025
21 Jan
'25
5 p.m.
Matt Borland wrote:
Assuming normalized numbers (which should be the case)...
This is not the case for the decimalXX types. IEEE 754 requires proper handling of cohorts (e.g. 1e-1 has a different bit pattern than 10e-2) so we have to normalize them before we can compare.
Amazing. This makes the Intel DFP numbers even more impressive.