Floating-point arithmetic can be expensive if you're using an integer-only processor. But floating-point values can be manipulated as integers, asa less expensive alternative. One advantage of using a ...

If you are used to writing software for modern machines, you probably don’t think much about computing something like one divided by three. Modern computers handle floating point quite well. … ...

After digging into the assembly of his fixed point algorithm, he was able to speed it up to 10 times faster than floating point arithmetic.