> Java is trying to figure out smart ways to access CPU-native 80-bit registers
What? Java has made use of extended precision floating point on x86 (well, x87) since 1.2. There is actually a proposal to stop doing this now that the x87 instructions are no longer the best way to do floating-point arithmetic [1].
Or is this about something else?
EDIT: Why am i asking here? I asked on the Reddit thread.