From: Ada novice <shai.lesh@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for everything?
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:55:37 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2013-01-24T02:55:37-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <796d0b70-fce0-454c-aeb0-3031b5eba200@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kddeai$f9i$1@dont-email.me>
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:26:25 AM UTC+1, Jeffrey Carter wrote
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> jrcarter@jrcarter-gateway-1:~/Code$ ./sum
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> Float took 0.007979000
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> Fixed took 0.008180000
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> jrcarter@jrcarter-gateway-1:~/Code$ ./sum
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> Float took 0.007971000
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> Fixed took 0.008278000
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> jrcarter@jrcarter-gateway-1:~/Code$ ./sum
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> Float took 0.007979000
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> Fixed took 0.008403000
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> It seems that floating-point operations are slightly faster than fixed point on
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> a (sort of) modern processor (AMD Athlon II M300).
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> The code:
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> with Ada.Real_Time;
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> with Ada.Text_IO;
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> with PragmARC.Universal_Random;
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Hi, When I run your code with GNAT GPL 2011, I get the error message: "file pragmARC.ads" not found.
Thanks.
YC
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2013-01-17 10:33 Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for everything? Ada novice
2013-01-17 14:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-01-17 16:16 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-17 17:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-17 16:25 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-18 9:17 ` Ada novice
2013-01-18 17:24 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-18 17:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-18 18:15 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-01-18 18:59 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-19 4:41 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-01-19 6:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-19 14:14 ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-25 12:16 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2013-01-24 10:55 ` Ada novice [this message]
2013-01-24 11:47 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-24 14:21 ` Ada novice
2013-01-20 0:05 ` Robin Vowels
2013-01-18 23:06 ` Robin Vowels
2013-01-18 19:09 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-18 21:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-19 7:02 ` Ada novice
2013-01-25 12:09 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2013-01-25 12:23 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2013-01-28 9:09 ` Ada novice
2013-02-01 10:53 ` Ada novice
2013-02-01 15:01 ` Shark8
2013-02-02 18:55 ` Ada novice
2013-02-03 4:05 ` Shark8
2013-02-04 6:23 ` Ada novice
2013-02-04 6:43 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 7:27 ` Ada novice
2013-02-04 9:37 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 10:09 ` Ada novice
2013-02-04 14:24 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 16:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-02-04 21:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 17:31 ` Robert A Duff
2013-02-04 21:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-02 21:08 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-04 6:17 ` Ada novice
2013-02-05 2:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-06 7:11 ` Ada novice
2013-02-07 6:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-07 8:43 ` Shark8
2013-02-08 3:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-08 6:20 ` Ada novice
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