Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:45:04 +0300
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> From: <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 19:33:20 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> 1. Most efficient? As in speed I suppose.
> 
> 2. Which is the most efficient? As all fp operations are done as long
> double within the CPU (IIRC), is my guess that long double is as
> efficient as any of the other two correct? Does this apply to the 387
> FPU as well?
> 
> 3. Should we define them to long double then?

I think we should write test programs and see which one is the
fastest.  It could be that both are fast enough, in which case float_t
should be float and double_t should be double.