
28 Oct
2008
28 Oct
'08
3:31 p.m.
Hi guys. This isn't specifically to do with Haskell, but... does anybody have any idea roughly how fast various CPU operations are? For example, is integer arithmetic faster or slower than floating-point? Is addition faster or slower than multiplication? How much slower are the trigonometric functions? etc. Does using 8-bit integers make arithmetic any faster than using wider values? Does anybody have a good resource for this kind of information?