Shriramana Sharma wrote: > I am trying to work out whether to use an integer or a double for my internal > storage variable of a class meant to store a time. > > Qt uses an unsigned integer with millisecond being the best precision, but I > am wondering, why I should lose the extra digits of precision that I could > get if I used a double. > > Is there a marked increase in computing speed if integer arithmetic is used > compared to double precision? It depends upon the architecture, but a double could be a lot slower than an int. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
