My guess is that no one uses them currently, because it's rare that you'd want to trade speed for *im*precision. Single-flonums in Racket are significantly slower than regular flonums, because they're not treated as a common case. The only use I can think of, and the one that inspired the original experiment, is to try to faithfully replicate a C `float` calculation in Racket, but even that possibility has issues.
To my knowledge, one reason to use single-precision numbers is that they occupy half as much memory, which is a big deal in e. g. video games and signal processing applications. No, I do not use them myself in Racket. Regards, Dmitry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/cb9fe12e-5091-ec55-e542-73c19f8b7483%40iaaras.ru. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
