From: Victor jetten <jeten AT laon DOT inra DOT fr>
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Subject: fixed or float 3D calculations on a pentium?
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 12:00:29 -0800
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I've been doing some 3D landscape respresentations using Allegro on a
pentium 166, resolution 1024x768 with 256 colors. The fixed point
version is slower than in floating point version (basic 3D calculations
on gridcells). Is this because a pertium is faster in float ?  How or
when should fixed point be applied to make it faster? Thanks