------- Comment #5 from deji_aking at yahoo dot ca 2006-05-06 16:24 ------- (In reply to comment #4) > > Which is faster? Multiplying and dividing by a literal constant > directly in your code or a function call to do the trivial work. > Really, I don't know enough about compiler technology to ba able to tell. Having had to deal with an empirical formulas made of a bunch of trig. functions (in degrees), i found it much convenient to just use sin_d(angle) instead of multiplying and diving by literal constants in each and all terms.
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