Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!schell From: schell@iris.ucdavis.edu (Stephan Schell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: 9000/825 integer performance Message-ID: <5097@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 19:25:33 GMT Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: schell@iris.ucdavis.edu (Stephan Schell) Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 11 Why do integer multiplies take longer than double precision floating point multiplies (at least, in C) ? I timed 180K integer multiply-accumulates and 206K double precision floating point multiply accumulates (including integer-to-double conversion) using the "times()" function. This seems kind of hokey that integer multiplies run slower than double precision floats, doesn't it? Steve Dept of EE & CS Univ. Calif., Davis