Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 18 okt 2006, at 08:31, Marc Santhoff wrote: > >> is anyone aware of or has done a calculations speed comparison for the >> four float types (single, double, extended, comp)? > > For the x87, the only difference can come from cache misses/hits due to > the different sizes they take up in memory, because the x87 performs all > calculations using either extended (the default in FPC) or double > precision (user-settable).
You can set it also to single. But these settings affect only division, roots and other complex operations. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
