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Re: How slow is floating point math really?

I didn't think it was speed so much as general processor weirdness with memory. I'd multiply and remove the decimal. What exactly is preventing you from doing so? Time to execute? In that case, using floating point won't speed things up at all.

Last edited by psy_wombats : 13-02-2008 at 19:54. Reason: Speed clarification