From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Fixed vs floating point?
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:59:50 -0700
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Rob Kramer wrote:

> Can anyone make a guess if multiplications/devisions in fixed point
> math
> are still faster on a machine that has a FPU? I was wondering if it
> would
> do any good to #define my code to use conventional floats if the
> machine
> supports it. (I'm using Allegro's fixed math stuff b.t.w)

For typical tasks, floating point should be faster.

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