2012/9/15 Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>: > > At this point, I'm still left wondering if Single-Flonums are good for > anything, but I can imagine that they are good for not breaking old > programs, so probably best to leave well enough alone. >
One use case for singles is offloading computations to a graphics card. GPUs are heavily optimized for single precision floats, some cards still don't support doubles at all, most have much lower performance with them. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
