From: jgd@cix.co.uk   
      
   In article <2026Jan5.100825@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,   
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:   
      
   > Possibly.  But the lack of takeup of the Intel library and of the   
   > gcc support shows that "build it and they will come" does not work   
   > out for DFP.   
      
   The world has got very used to IEEE BFP, and has solutions that work   
   acceptably with it. Lots of organisations don't see anything obvious for   
   them in DFP.   
      
   The thing I'd like to try out is fast quad-precision BFP. For the field I   
   work in, that would make some things much simpler. I did try to interest   
   AMD in the idea in the early days of x86-64, but they didn't bite.   
      
   John   
      
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