Correct Rounding in Double Extended Precision

The double extended precision format is an 80-bit floating-point format introduced in the 80x87 series of floating-point processors by Intel. Since the introduction of vector instructions in the x86 processors, its use has fallen due to speed concerns. We implement in CORE-MATH the first correctly-rounded routines for double extended precision. These implementations use modern microprocessor features and double-double arithmetic, avoiding x87-specific features, and achieve up to 2x speedup over state-of-the-art implementations which are not correctly rounded. This demonstrates that double extended precision could be viable as a large computational format.

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2025-05-04
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https://doi.org/10.1109/arith64983.2025.00027
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Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
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Correct Rounding in Double Extended Precision

Paul Zimmermann, Sélène Corbineau
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Correct Rounding in Double Extended Precision

Paul Zimmermann, Sélène Corbineau
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Abstract

The double extended precision format is an 80-bit floating-point format introduced in the 80x87 series of floating-point processors by Intel. Since the introduction of vector instructions in the x86 processors, its use has fallen due to speed concerns. We implement in CORE-MATH the first correctly-rounded routines for double extended precision. These implementations use modern microprocessor features and double-double arithmetic, avoiding x87-specific features, and achieve up to 2x speedup over state-of-the-art implementations which are not correctly rounded. This demonstrates that double extended precision could be viable as a large computational format.

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), École Normale Supérieure - PSL (FR), Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (FR), Département d'Informatique (FR), Université de Lorraine (FR)
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