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From: "Mark Theyer" <theyergfx@ozemail.com.au>
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Subject: 32bit v 64bit floats
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:10:08 +1000
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It appears to me that the calculation performance of 32bit floats
are similar to integer operations (or maybe 50% slower) and
64bit floats absolutely KILLS the thing.

I did a simple loop with 32bit floats, 32bit ints and 64 bit doubles
and the float and int performance appeared similar.

Am I guessing correctly?

Mark Theyer