Ian Wagner :osm: 🦀 :freebsd: on Nostr: nprofile1q…pal3s probably because very few platforms actually support this. I ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpql3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczscpal3s (nprofile…al3s) probably because very few platforms actually support this. I believe x86 can internally use 80 bits for intermediate results in floating point calculations but this isn’t something you typically access directly. 128 bit floats are also supported on a few architectures like RISC-V. So Rust has nightly support for the type, or you can use platform specific intrinsics. But it’s not something that belongs in a standard library generally. You should have to “know what you’re doing.”