Re: Continuations

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:51:17 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

On the other hand, I am advocating that some Elementary Functions be
raised to first class citizens of ISA so that SIM() is 20 cycles instead
of 150 cycles. Why, because today, we understand enough about the cal-
culations, polynomials, error sources, to build in HW things that are
just as accurate as SW can build and nearly 7×-10× faster.

I can remember a Comp Sci professor waxing lyrical about p-adic number
systems, as an alternative to conventional p-ary ones. The key thing was
that division was no more complex than multiplication.