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Subject: Re: Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for
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On Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:26:25 AM UTC+1, Jeffrey Carter wrote
> 
> 
> jrcarter@jrcarter-gateway-1:~/Code$ ./sum
> 
> Float took 0.007979000
> 
> Fixed took 0.008180000
> 
> jrcarter@jrcarter-gateway-1:~/Code$ ./sum
> 
> Float took 0.007971000
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 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