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2010-09-04 , 04:24
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Originally Posted by j.s View Post
When did phones get hardware floating point math?
(GPU and DSP don't count unless math functions in the standard libraries support them out of the box.)
Actually, I wouldn't mind if floating point processing went the way of the dinosaur. 64-bit integers are faster, have greater range (in the sense of more states) and don't have the many rounding-related problems that floating-point math has.
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