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

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
>>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.

Also with double precision floats? Then GMP's bigint implementation must 
be quite good. (Q uses those for integer arithmetic. So the two test 
runs I gave were actually GMP vs. machine double precision floats.)

Anyway, thanks for the hint.

Albert

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