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> No FPU usage (all integer maths, even for file size) I wonder what is the significance of avoiding floating point math in a program that will spend most of i

> No FPU usage (all integer maths, even for file size) I wonder what is the significance of avoiding floating point math in a program that will spend most of its time waiting for user input.

apjana 6y ago
You are looking for the benchmarks: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/pull/84 https://github.com/jarun/nnn/pull/84
- voltagex_ 6y ago
  Why does this provide such a speed up on modern CPUs?
  - apjana 6y ago
    Please head here: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Performance https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Performance
otabdeveloper4 6y ago
Don't know what the situation is like today, but not so long ago not all architectures supported floating point numbers. Math operations were emulated in software libraries, which was slow and buggy.
- apjana 6y ago
  I get the sarcasm but probably a lot of that would depend on the calculation involved.