Reals in PS code

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From: jwhiting
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1990 05:51

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The PS books & misc. Adobe tech notes lead me to believe that 
real numbers are faster than integers.  No type conversion.

If this is true can I further assume that " 0. " is faster 
than "0.0" which is way faster than " 0 " ?

thanks in advance,
jwhiting

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