Re: Misc: Applications of small floating point formats.

EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> schrieb:

With FP128 will there again be a significant difference in speed to
FP62 or FP32 (including transcendentals)? Seems there would be because not
every HW implementation is going to implement a full width multiplier.

The only major architecture I'm aware of that uses FP128, POWER,
chose to use their decimal FP unit do do it on the side.

This makes multiplication _really_ slow, unfortunately.