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On December 26th, 2015, Jeffrey R. Carter posted:
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|"When I started out in S/W development, I learned some rules, such as, "Integer |
|math is much faster than floating point," and, "Memory is scarce."              |
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|In the 90s, processors began to typically have an FPU, and floating-point math  |
|became as fast as integer, and in some cases, since it could proceed in parallel|
|with the CPU, faster.                                                           |
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|When computers began to commonly have RAM in quantities measured in GB rather   |
|than KB or MB, memory ceased to be scarce, [. . .]                              |
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|Jeff Carter"                                                                    |
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Even a number-crunching workstation is likely to have caches which are
much smaller than ideal.

Not all current FPGAs nor embedded microcontrollers have an FPU (nor
much memory, let alone a cache).

Yours sincerely,
Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester