On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 17:32:45 -0700, Les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The same is true of Floating point operations vs integers. When floats > had to be calculated by loops with an integer processor, they were > expensive and integers were faster. Now with high speed floating point > units, simple float operations are quite fast if done in line. Ditto On some models of crays the floating point units were faster than the integer units. I don't remember if that was because interger operations may not have been vectorizable or if there was some other reason for it.
