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just use double?
just use double?
Posted Sep 14, 2006 1:39 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (subscriber, #421)In reply to: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com) by zooko
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)
Um, for 48 bits per item you could just use 64-bit double precision, which is portable (now that everyone uses IEEE 754) and has 52 bits in its significand (i.e it can represent 52-bit integers exactly).
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just use double?
Posted Sep 21, 2006 11:44 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link]
Integer<->float convertion can be quite expensive, so I'm not sure using double is that interesting.