Re: Parsing timestamps?

dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:

I suspect IEEE simply standardized what had become common practice among
implementers.

No, it was really new and interesting. 
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html

What little I know about SSE2 it's not as well thought out or organized
as Intel's original effort.  E.g. doing something as simple as changing
sign of an fp number is a pain when NANs are factored in.

I wonder if later SSE/AVX/whatever versions fixed this stuff.