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Re: Features for multiprecision arithmetic)

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From: Reinhard Kirchner
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 16:07
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> Now the problem with those c-ish RISC is: in C these things are not needed,
> C-program statistics do not show them ( in fact, no high level language
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> Another bunch of difficulties comes from these long numbers being so long.
> This means: the tend to grow during calculations, and they tend not to
> fit into the registers, even if there are 32 of them. So the program
> has to deal with two kinds of looongs, the short ones which fit, and the
> loooooooooooooooong ones which do not. For these CISCs with shifts and adds
> in memory are very nice.
 
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 support such things !! ) and so nearly nobody has all what is needed.
 
 R. Kirchner
 Univ. of Kaiserslautern Germany
 kirchner@uklirb.uni-kl.informatik.de    ( see also head of posting )
 kinf89@dkluni01.bitnet                   ( prefered )
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From: kirchner@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner)
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Subject: Re: Features for multiprecision arithmetic)
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Date: 26 Feb 90 16:07:30 GMT
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