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Re: Grumbling about setting double precision [message #78772 is a reply to message #78771]

Wed, 21 December 2011 06:45

David Fanning
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greg.addr@googlemail.com writes:

> Would there be any downside *at all* to having the compiler always
> read values as doubles and convert down to floats when necessary?

Well, let's see. Twice as much memory allocated for
each number comes to mind. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 21 December 2011 09:26
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:22
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: greg.addr on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:16
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: Russell[1] on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:15
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 07:21
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: greg.addr on Wed, 21 December 2011 07:04
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 06:45
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: greg.addr on Wed, 21 December 2011 06:35
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 06:28
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 21 December 2011 06:20
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: wlandsman on Wed, 21 December 2011 17:34
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: Mark Piper on Tue, 03 January 2012 14:04
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: greg.addr on Thu, 22 December 2011 03:48
		Re: Grumbling about setting double precision By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 10:13

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