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I'm genuinely curious here: why would using integers be slower than using floats? I thought floating point operations were always more expensive than handling i

• yummyfajitas 14y ago
  For simple accounting, it wouldn't be slower. The issue is analytical code, e.g.: int price = getPrice(symbol); double signal = exp(...) * ((double)price); if (signal > threshold) { buy(symbol); } The point is to avoid converting from int to double every single time you need to do a calculation.