Re: Avoid treating the stack as an array [Re: "Back & Forth" is back!]

Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> writes:

The current VFX 64 bit systems for x64 allow you to select float packs for
  80x87    8 item internal stack
  hfp87    80x87 external stack
  SSE      external stack

I guess the next thing is to run that same benchmark with the SSE pack.

With SSE if you want to do transcendentals, is it usual to use a
software library that does the numerics?  It seems easier for the
library to use the x87 FPU when it is available.

Maybe some processors will start supporting IEEE 128 bit floating point
someday.  I know that the RISC-V architecture contains instructions for
it, but I don't know of any processor hardware that does it.