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From: scs@athena.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers...
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Date: 7 Oct 88 06:30:52 GMT
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In article <1703@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>	The result may differ in the last bit of the significand because
>	of this. However, in most cases, that is irrelevant and the
>	multiply will be significantly faster.

...demonstrating, once again, that it's always more important to
get the answer fast than get it right :-(.

                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs@adam.pika.mit.edu

(Sorry, Walter, this isn't quite fair, and I understand that
being off in the last bit isn't necessarily "wrong," but as long
as the church of efficiency is standing around on soapboxes I'm
going to stand on mine.)