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1 Sep 2024 18:13:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: double/single precision  
From: GrimDude
Date: 27 Jan 2001 02:13:16
Message: <3a72750c@news.povray.org>
Do it anyway! :)
Pentium 4's will be prevalent someday won't they?

Grim
"Daniel Jungmann" <DSJ### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
news:3a68805d$1@news.povray.org...
> >   Also, with current FPU's, using double precision numbers is as fast as
> > using single precision, so the extra accuracy is got for free.
>
> But single precision could be optimized. 3D!Now & SSE use single precision
> and PovRay can't use this, because of double precision. I am optimizing
> PovRay for SSE2 ( uses double precision ), but not everybody have a
Pentium
> 4 but I am looking for the possibility to make PovRay faster and it would
be
> easier to use 3D!Now & SSE to do that.
>
>
>


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