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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it
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Msg-id 9127.1371049978@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On 12 June 2013 01:35, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> On the whole, I think the effort would be a lot more usefully spent on
>> trying to make the existing NUMERIC support go faster.

> Did you have a specific idea in mind? Or an area of investigation?

As I said further up, we should look at Intel's library and see if we
can learn anything that would help the NUMERIC code.
        regards, tom lane

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