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C Programming
Doubles vs. floats
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From:
Steve Eckhart
Aug 1, 1993 11:45 PM
Mark, It's actually faster to use doubles than it is to use floats (although it takes twice the memory, of course). That's because the system promotes the floats to doubles and back whenever it performs any math operations. Steve