[Cfp-interest 3148] Re: thoughts on linear interpolations

[Damian McGuckin]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, David Hough CFP wrote:

> And all the conditionals impede performance, even with the hardware 
> suppport. It's hard to imagine an application that could make use of a 
> very slow correctly-rounded software implementation.

I concur.

> So from my point of view, that argues against standardization in general 
> purpose languages.

At the very least, it argues against standardization at this point in time 
for floating point numbers unless we have much better algorithms. But, I 
would find it harder to argue against a case for integers, especially for 
the specialisation to a midpoint function. I will ponder that more.

Thanks - Damian