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| From: | skaller <skaller@u...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] bigarrays much lower than normal ones |
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 03:05, Hal Daume III wrote: > I'm also really shocked that the 32 bit float bigarrays are slower than > the 64 bit ones! IEEE hardware loads/saves 64 bit and converts internally to 80 bit. 32 bit requires extra conversions. OTOH you might save on memory and gain some performance wrt caches. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net