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- From: M_Andree@tribal.line.org (Matthias Andree)
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- Subject: Re: Fastest datatype?
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:53:52 +0100
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- On 11.03.1996 at 16:20:33 sten@academy.bastad.se (Sten Jansson) wrote
- concerning Fastest datatype?:
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- > I've heard that float is faster than integer. Is that true? I've got
- > no FPU.
-
- That depends... usually, integer is considered faster. But an FPU should
- be faster than emulating float. So maybe program options are confusing
- in this case and mislead to assuming float was faster than integer.
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