[Freeciv-Dev] Re: server/settlers.c cleanup 3

[Per I Mathisen <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> does the return value for amortize ever find itself in the denominator
> of some division?

That wouldn't make any sense, since the return value of amortize is a want
value, and want is frequently zero.

> I highly doubt this is a general rule. Increasing precision should
> always decrease your performance.

Tested. The result was almost unnoticable.

FLOAT:
real    0m1.230s
user    0m1.210s
sys     0m0.000s

DOUBLE:
real    0m1.200s
user    0m1.190s
sys     0m0.010s

Yours,
Per

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