Hi I am wrting a application that involves a lot of floating point number crunching. My data is stored in tables of the form:
TABLE data ( date_id INT, value FLOAT) I have just noticed in the documention that the FLOAT data type is stored in 8 bytes (ie 64 bits) as opposed to the REAL data type which uses 4 bytes (ie 32 bits). All things being equal, does this mean that if I change my data type to REAL (and lose some precision) I will see a significant performance increase on my 32 bit Pentium 4? Or, if I keep my data type as FLOAT will I see a significant performance increase by changing to a 64 bit CPU? Regards John Duffy ___________________________________________________________ Book yourself something to look forward to in 2005. Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/ Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
