Proposal for Decimal64 and Decimal128 value-based classes

[Raffaello Giulietti]

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.)
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
>>