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- From: sten@academy.bastad.se (Sten)
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- Subject: Re: Fastest datatype?
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:02:23 GMT
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- Nick C. Fotis wrote:
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- >sten@academy.bastad.se (Sten Jansson) writes:
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- >>I've heard that float is faster than integer. Is that true? I've got
- >>no FPU.
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- >Is this the most misleading subject or is it just me? :-)
- >I thought I was about to read about some fancy jpg, gif datatype ;-)
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- Surprise surprise... But data types can be e.g. int and float too. Look in
- Amiga C for Beginners (not that I've been reading that book lately),
- or take a beginners course in computer science.
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- >Anyways, since you got me here, I might as well give you an answer (Nice
- >trick, dont do it again :P
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- Thanks for answering.
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- >..."Faster datatype"! Yeah, right :-)
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- Right! Clever-head. :-)
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- Au revoir!
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- Sten
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