From: "Geo" 

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:417e6654{at}w3.nls.net...

>>Why do you want to display the numbers 1-1000000000? You won't be able to
see them. And you'll be measuring the performance of the display system
right down to the graphics card driver rather than any code you're
writing.<<

Because it allows you to be more clever since it uses more of the system.
Poking the number into screen memory instead of using a display function is
much faster.

>unsigned u ;
>while ( u < 1000000000 )
 >   ++u ;

So would doing

register unsigned u;
while ( u < 1000000000 )
   ++u ;

make a difference?

>Which sort of implies that double is faster on this occasion. It's up to
you to work out why...

I'm still working out how your time function functions..

Geo.

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