[squeak-dev] Re: floats
Nicolas Cellier
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 18:41:35 UTC 2009
Hi Eliot,
AFAIK, VW does not use the nan trick, so it has to perform extra conversions
on SmallDouble, doesn't it?
Nicolas
2009/3/16 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
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> So the experience with my 64-bit VW implementation was that
> - typical large symbolic benchmarks (e.g. all senders) were 15% to 20%
> slower in 64-bits than in 32-bits.
> - immediate double arithmetic is about 3 times faster at about half the
> speed of immediate integer operations
> - images are about 55% larger when converted from 32-bit to 64-bit
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> Eliot
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