On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:34:16 -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: > There's 2 ways, if you check the benchmarks, the ones that say "float" > use a cast, and the ones that say "fistl" use that instruction (which is > faster in most cases). I think what surprised me the most about all this > is the slow performance of the G4 on floating point.. I heard several times > that they have instant float->int conversion... and this is using apple's gcc > compiler.
Right, but a cast isnt the same thing as a conversion. A C cast has explicit semantics. - Steve
