Martijn, On 9/28/06 11:53 AM, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:
> Converting to/from text format for when dealing with client > applications. Numeric can convert faster than plain integers sometimes. > Numeric isn't that slow really... Got it - so the performance benefits of the fixed point versus Numeric are: - Smaller size of fixed point (less than half) - Faster arithmetic operations These should be quantified, so that we can evaluate Money64 as a proposal and to understand Numeric better. - Luke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings