On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:53:34PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Terry> "Kristján V. Jónsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Anyway, Skip noted that 50% of all floats are whole numbers between > >> -10 and 10 inclusive, > > Terry> Please, no. He said something like this about > Terry> *non-floating-point applications* (evidence unspecified, that I > Terry> remember). But such applications, by definition, usually don't > Terry> have enough floats for caching (or conversion time) to matter too > Terry> much. > > Correct. The non-floating-point application I chose was the one that was > most immediately available, "make test". Note that I have no proof that > regrtest.py isn't terribly floating point intensive. I just sort of guessed > that it was.
For my application caching 0.0 is by far the most important. 0.0 has ~200,000 references - the next highest reference count is only about ~200. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
