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In article <30F35518.4209@medcor.mcgill.ca>, Robert Salasidis
<salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca> wrote:

>All games that are worth anything use absolutely zero floating point in
critical 
>areas. Floating point is too inefficient, and integers are used exclusively 
>(this is for all games that require real time action).

Au contraire.  There is at least one 3-D gaming engine for 68040 and
PowerPC Macs that makes extensive use of floating point.  Integer math
being truly more efficient is a thing of the past, since modern CPUs
provide very fast FP.

The calculations made in 3-D games are much more natural in a FP number
system.  The only reason integer was ever used, really, is that the
programmer had no guarantee that large percentages of customers had FPUs. 
Now that a fast FPU is always present with either the PowerPC or the
Pentium, usage of FP in games should rise.

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