Thread: How slow is floating point math really?
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Re: How slow is floating point math really?
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Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
We currently have a couple floating point operations in our program. Is it absolutely vital that we change these?
No, a few floating point operations per 26ms cycle generally isn't a problem.

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