Osamu Shigematsu schrieb am Mit, 26 Jan 2000:
> Hi, all.
>
> Recently, I found that float (32bit folating point) is faster than double
> (64bit) when calculating devision. More, division is extreamly slower than
> multiplication.
>
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>
> How does everyone think about unifing float size to 32bit? It has merit to
> x86, or other CPU?
>
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> Osamu Shigematsu
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There is an speed advantage in using float on many machines (not all!).
But, be aware that float has only 7 decimal places, and that is sometimes
not enough!
Robert
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