In article <opr5b0xzcvzjc5hb@news.povray.org> , Fredrik Eriksson 
<noo### [at] nowherecom>  wrote:

> Integer multiplies are slower than FP multiplies.

No, they aren't in general.  It all depends on the number of bits you
multiply (well, not really as an multiplication can be fully pipelined so
"only" latency increases), and thus a 32 bit integer multiplication will be
faster than the multiplications needed to handle 64 bit floats.

Anyway, you are right, we are a bit off-topic :-)

    Thorsten

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