- From: Colin Paul Adams <colin@colina.demon.co.uk>
- Date: 18 Mar 2004 11:36:29 +0000
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Cc: <public-qt-comments@w3c.org>
>>>>> "MK" == Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk> writes:
MK> (a) I think there are likely to be very few stylesheets whose
MK> performance will benefit noticeably from using 32-bit rather
MK> than 64-bit arithmetic. If you're going to trade correctness
MK> of output for speed of output, you need a very clear view of
MK> how much performance you think you can gain by it.
But xs:decimal and xs:integer are NOT hardware types, limited to
64-bits of precision. At least, that's how I understand XML
Schema. I read them as being arbitrary precision numbers and integers
(with a cop-out clause).
My point was, why include xs:double (rather than xs:float - presumably
faster), and not include a hardware integer type?
--
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire
Received on Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:36:31 UTC