Re: [Python-Dev] Python on non IEEE-754 platforms: plea for information.

Mark Dickinson wrote:

Thank you: a very useful thread. From what little information I'm turning up on Google, it looks as though most of these devices---if they support floating-point at all---provide some reasonably close approximation to IEEE 754 floats (possibly emulated in software).

Some of the devices have a (slow) floating point engine. But it's sometimes disabled to safe power or userland software can't sometimes access the FPU. Some devices can (ab)use the DSP or GPU/OpenGL engine to speed up floating point ops. Christian