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From: mperdue@iquest.net (Mario Perdue)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: Creating a TMD on the fly
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:18:06 GMT
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While floating point calculations would make the code easier to write,
it would also cause the program to run slower. I use the FPU (in PC's)
for all my CAD programs, but never in games.

Mario

On Thu, 05 Jun 1997 19:43:32 -0400, Tim O'Neil
<goneil@chat.carleton.ca> wrote:

>Personally, I would have liked to see them go the extra foot and put in
>a floating point processor, but hey, that would make programming the
>thing less complicated.