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The top voted answer explains that the premise of the question and therefore the title of the submission is wrong.
by ta12121 14y ago
The top voted answer explains that the premise of the question and therefore the title of the submission is wrong.
- acqq 14y agoSo you missed the answer from ridiculous_fish there: on Power PC CPU's doing floating point comparisons the speeds are actually different. That's a perfect counterexample for your claim that "the premise is wrong." Detailed explanation about reasons was given by Lukas.
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- ta12121 14y agoThe Detailed Explanation given by Lucas concludes: So, on some machines, using a "less than" comparison might save one machine instruction. This was relevant in the era of sub-megahertz processor speed and 1:1 cpu-to-memory speed ratios, but is almost totally irrelevant today.