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 



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