Re: Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for everything?

[Ada novice <shai.lesh@gmx.com>]

On Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:03:33 AM UTC+1, Randy Brukardt wrote:

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> My point was that most loops can be refactored this way unless there is some 
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> varying data in them. (And the best loop execution-wise is no loop.) And 
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> indeed, most of the loops like this that I've written involve processing 
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> (summarizing, often) an array of data. In which case you need an array 
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> index; and usually you can convert that index into the factor by some 
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> technique. So iteration by fixed point values or the like makes for 
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> interesting examples, but won't happen that often in practice.
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>                                                       Randy.

Thanks for your interesting message. I agree with you that one needs to simplify the code as far as possible. In most situations where I use loops, it is because at each index, I am computing some new variables that need to be stored (for example in a time integration routine). In this case, I can't get rid of the loop construct because of the "varying data".