On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Timon Gehr <timon.g...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > If double uses xmm registers and real uses the fpu registers (as is standard > on x64), then double multiplication has twice the throughput of real > multiplication on recent intel microarchitectures.
Hi can you clarify that? I'm interested because I'm running a 64 bit system. What does twice the throughput mean? double is faster? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा