Re: No FP compile option for Lua?
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- Subject: Re: No FP compile option for Lua?
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: 2008年2月20日 22:58:33 +0900
ramsdell@mitre.org (John D. Ramsdell) writes:
>> Besides, in contrast with my all integer modification, your
>> modification to Lua would run number intensive applications much
>> slower.
>
> This isn't what I meant to say. I meant to say one cannot make the
> desired changes given the list of macros you listed. Furthermore, I
> bet an integer only version of Lua would run quite a bit faster on
> some number intensive applications.
I expect it depends on the processor you're talking about. Floating
point arithmetic on modern processors is often _very_ fast...
-Miles
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