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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Fastest datatype?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 10:41:50 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Sten Jansson (sten@academy.bastad.se) wrote:
- : I've heard that float is faster than integer. Is that true? I've got
- : no FPU.
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- In general float provide better 'quality' but rarely a speed improvment.
- If the code is not optimized for integer fixpoint operation then its
- better to use the math copro version of the datatype VS using the
- 'integer' FP style version that actually use the math*.library
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- If you have no FPU you shouldn't think to much about it since you 'cant'
- run 6888x datatypes :)
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- Stephan
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