[Bf-committers] optimising the code

[Stephen Swaney]

Pardon my numerical ignorance, but are float arithmetic
operations faster than doubles?

Most modern computers have some sort of hardware
floating point unit for doing double precision math.
I rather suspect that float operations are done by
first converting to doubles, pushing them thru the
hardware FPU and converting back to floats.

Perhaps someone who is more of a hardware weenie can
comment.

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Stephen Swaney			
sswaney@swbell.net