Yes, this red color gave me pause. Since this D feature appears in 5.8.9, I have no idea what the difference in text color means. Maybe if nobody knows what it means, the red color should be removed as a doc fix?

oh...I see .. perhaps the red means that Perl has to be compiled in a certain way for the feature to "work"? Right now I'm using Perl 25.24 compiled for 64 bit. I suspect that means that long double is available? Almost all of my work is with integers and text. as another "oh...", I remember some benchmark testing that a Phd student did for me from ASM class on float performance with modern Intel processors. There are more transistors in the math unit than in the main CPU. The result was that float operations are about the same as integer ops which surprised me.

In reply to Re^5: [OT] Endianness and extended precision (80-bit) long doubles by Marshall
in thread [OT] Endianness and extended precision (80-bit) long doubles by syphilis

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