Warp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/09/10 19:35:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> Possible but not realy practical in any case when you need to do 1000's+ of FP
>> operations, some of those been possibly quite complexe. And this was my point:
>> maintain acceptable rendering speed while geting higher FP precision.
>> Arbitrary precision can be 100 to 1000 times slower, and possibly even worse.
>
> He didn't ask to render using the high-precision FP. He asked for
> #defined variables with high precision.
>
There is no use to only define the variable using extreme precision if you can't
use it at that precision.
If you #define a variable at 100 decimal places, you also want to use it at 100
decimal places.
--
Alain
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