On Saturday 18 Aug 2007 20:08:12 Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > Integer calculations are much more faster than floating point > calculations. > Generally, integer calculations are necessary and sufficient for the > things > done in kernel code. But if you really required floating point, you > can always > do that.
Dumb question. Consider gettimeofday(). Whats the point of having two int/longs in a struct when a float would have sufficed? Not to mention calculating time interval etc are bit easier? Just a thought.. Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
