• Alex@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Writing floating point emulation code?

    I’d pretty much avoided learning about floating point until we decided to refactor the softfloat code in QEMU to support additional formats.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      The very wide majority of IT professionals don’t work on emulation or even system kernels. Most of us are doing simple applications, or working on supporting these applications, or their deployment and maintenance.