Remove real type
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Thu Apr 22 16:51:44 PDT 2010
BCS:
> If you have no special reason to use float or double and are not IO or memory
> space bound, use real. Every machine I know the details of will use it in
> the FPU so the only general advantage to not using it is IO speed and data
> size.
Take one of the little ray-tracers written in D from my site, test its running speed compiled with ldc, replace doubles with reals, and time it again. You will see a nice performance difference. LDC FP performance is not good if it doesn't use SSE registers.
Bye,
bearophile
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