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Hmm, perhaps, but firmware is not hardware....
This article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6 contains the following statement:
"Unlike the servers from IBM's competitors, the POWER6 has hardware support for decimal arithmetic and will include the first decimal floating-point unit integrated in silicon. More than 50 new floating point instructions handle the decimal math and conversions between binary and decimal.[7] This is a feature being added to the processors powering IBM's System z.[8]"
Eric
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:57 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Integers outperform Packed in a big way
DeLong, Eric wrote:
Regardless, there has never (to my knowledge) been a hardware BCD
processor in the i platform.... IBM optimized the system to prefer
dealing with packed, but it is a software implementation....
Remember, the original IMPI implementation of the AS/400 was on a CISC
component CPU. It could (and presumably did) have hardware or firmware
implementations of whatever the hell IBM Rochester wanted.
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