Remove real type
Don
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Fri Apr 23 12:34:51 PDT 2010
BCS wrote:
> Hello bearophile,
>
>> Even if you are right, real-life programs often need to process good
>> amounts of memory, so using reals they are slower.
>
> Exactly, that is the one case where float and double are better, where
> large volumes of data need to be processed, normally in a regular
> fashion. For cases where small amounts of data are processed and where
> there is littler opportunity to use vectorization, they have little or
> no advantage over real.
>
> And I suspect that both kinds of code occur with some regularity.
>
A simple rule of thumb: if it's an array, use float or double. If it's
not, use real.
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