Re: [q-lang-users] Re: Newbie questions and comments

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

John Cowan <co...@cc...> writes:

> Albert Graef scripsit:
> 
> > Did you use integer or floating point arithmetic? 
> 
> On modern hardware the performance is often just about the same.
> In certain cases, floating-point is actually faster.

On the same box as I did the hugs-v-q comparison:

 | ==> takfp::takstart 10 ; stats
 | 11.0
 | 453 secs, 278308696 reductions, 78 cells
 | 
 | ==> takfp::takstart 10.0 ; stats
 | 11.0
 | 452 secs, 278308696 reductions, 78 cells


<http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=delta&action=Search>,
sense 3 ;)

~Tim
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