[fpc-pascal] Extended type under Win64

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Mon Mar 9 17:10:06 CET 2020


Am 08.03.2020 um 16:03 schrieb Ched via fpc-pascal:
> 
> Well, well... Does it means that if one have scientific computations 
> needing the extended type available on an Intel based processor with 
> time constraints forbiding software emulation, one have to rest under a 
> 32 bits version of windows ?

All modern "number crunching" approaches (e.g. GPUs or AVX-512 do not 
support the extended type, so I doubt there is really a relevant number 
of use cases for the extended type.


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