* On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:23:07AM +0200 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: > Lets sum up the arguments: > > > 32 bit 48 bit > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Needs slightly less memory and > > Needs slightly more memory and is > slower. > Did I forget anything? Is suboptimal. wrt exponent could be made optimal wrt. processing (8 bit covered in exponent processing 2 bytes) Especially on an 8 bit machine, this argument might be a significant one if we mostly want to add or subtract values. With multiplication and division, this might not be that important anymore. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Wed Sep 29 10:20:53 2004
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