11 May
2006
11 May
'06
8:33 p.m.
skaller wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 00:34 +0100, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
I suppose you might argue that "extra precision is always good". Well... I'm having a hard time thinking of a situation where it isn't.
Wastes space in the cache tree, slowing down the program and limiting the max size problem that can be handled.
But we were talking about flushing temporary values to memory to force rounding; in this case keeping the extra precision is cheaper than getting rid of it. When that's not true, I agree that less precision is sometimes better. -- Ben