A contribution to GMP

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Thu Oct 24 10:54:55 CEST 2013


On 2013-10-24 10:01:32 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Niels Möller wrote:
> >I guess in theory, mpf could be slightly faster than mpfr since mpf
> >doesn't make any effort to have precisely defined rounding.
> 
> In that case I think it would be preferable to introduce a new "don't care"
> rounding mode in mpfr (or several depending on what we mean by that
> exactly).

Well, faithful rounding is already reserved in mpfr_rnd_t, though this
probably won't happen soon (though it could be done one function at a
time).

-- 
Vincent Lefèvre <vincent at vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)


More information about the gmp-devel mailing list