Re: Float/Double compare

[Ian Rogers]

In terms of performance I just tried sorting an array of floats with the 
new code (floatAsIntBits should have been floatToIntBits, sorry). The 
test was to initialize an array of floats backwards and then sort it to 
be ascending. Running a large enough array and enough iterations to get 
a ~4 second run, using the Jikes RVM's optimizing compiler, the speed up 
was around 7.77% on a Pentium 4 Linux box.

Ian