It's still plenty fast for most real-world applications. I did a lot of work with the Cortex M3, which similarly lacks floating point. With many compilers you c

It's still plenty fast for most real-world applications. I did a lot of work with the Cortex M3, which similarly lacks floating point. With many compilers you can even still use float() directly and the compiler will convert the floating point operations to integer math, somewhat/mostly transparently. There were a few hiccups, but for the most part you didn't have to think about it.