3 ms·Were square roots really so slow that integer addition in a loop was faster??by bobbylarrybobby 5y agoWere square roots really so slow that integer addition in a loop was faster??the2and7 5y ago68000 processor on the Mac didn't support floating point operations.dahfizz 5y agoI wouldn't be surprised if that is still the case. Rule of thumb is that sqrt is on the order of 10x as expensive as integer addition, though this obviously depends on a lot of factors.