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research more recent paper #54

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maddyblue opened this issue May 23, 2017 · 1 comment
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research more recent paper #54

maddyblue opened this issue May 23, 2017 · 1 comment
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https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/mca/mca-cup-0.5.9.pdf

Has a section about floating point arithmetic that appears to be able to support our use case of arbitrary precision. Research the methods there to see if we can improve performance more.
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I've begun an exploration of this paper at https://github.com/cockroachdb/apd/tree/int10

It implements an int10 type that is just a []uint8, with one digit per member. This clearly wastes memory, but critically it also wastes lots of CPU during add, since it has to add one digit at a time. It may make sense to use 1000 per digit instead of 10.

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