[Python-ideas] Floating point contexts in Python core

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 11.10.12 07:20, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> This is little over 6,400 line of code and I think most of it can be
> reused to implement base 2 (or probably better base 16) float.

With base 16 floats you can't emulate x86 native 53-bit mantissa floats.