Re: Support for non-default rounding modes in the softfloat layer

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Apr 30, 2013, at 5:31 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger 
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:28:47PM +0200, ольга крыжановская wrote:
>> A lot of scientific software uses non-default rounding modes as
>> optimisation short cut. but then this is software which runs on high
>> end hardware a la SPARC T5, SPARC64, NEC SX9 or the very latest
>> IA32/AMD64 hardware.
> 
> Note that performance concerns are part of why I raised this question.

If you are concerned about performance, you aren't use softfloat.