* Luke Lonergan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Though this may be the kiss of death, I favor a 64 bit float version of > money. It's more terse than numeric and a *lot* faster when performing > numeric operations because it would use a cpu intrinsic operand.
What about just having a numeric64, or changing numeric to support moving to 64bit sizes when necessary and supported by the platform? Exactly how much faster would it *really* be? Have you tested it? At what point does it become a 'winning' change? I'm not sure about 'money' in general but these claims of great performance improvments over numeric just don't fly so easily with me. numeric isn't all *that* much slower than regular old integer in the tests that I've done. Thanks, Stephen
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