Proposal for Decimal64 and Decimal128 value-based classes
Raffaello Giulietti
raffaello.giulietti at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 22:52:23 UTC 2021
There's no strict need for Valhalla, as they are more compact and faster
than BigDecimal even today.
On 2021-03-30 22:03, Brian Goetz wrote:
> Overall, I'd be happy to see Decimal types that are aimed at "reasonable
> precision" in addition to the infinite precision that BD offers. (After
> Valhalla, of course.)
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> On 3/29/2021 4:14 PM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm experimenting with an implementation of Decimal64 and Decimal128,
>> two standard IEEE 754-2019 formats supporting, well, decimal floating
>> point numbers of up to 16 resp 34 decimal digits.
>>
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