Actually trying the use integer bit and seeing the difference was actually made me bite. I figured it was interesting enough to post so instead of starting a 3rd smoldering thread...
-Lee
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The "use integer" bit is actually really interesting. As you saw, I didn't know that pragmas before read your post, and messed it up with "use bigint", and started to talk about 32-bit, blahblah...
Your testing showed me the use of "use integer" and showed me it worked. That is not something I can test, as you already saw, becaue I have floating math chip installed. My result actually proved what they said in the document for "use integer", something like "if you have floating chipblah blah, you will not see a big difference..."
This is where people come to help each other, you tried what I cannot, and shared with me, and I tried what you can't, and shared with you.
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Anything Intel beyond a 486DX has a FPU built in. So the difference is not the floating point. I'm not up on CPU's like I used to be but I don't think any common processors (outside of embedded) use software floating point anymore.
The last I know of was was the 486SX which is circa 1993~4.
-Lee
"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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