Re: gb_t and memMeter

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
>
> Can anyone shed some light on why do we use some strange
> type gb_t that consists of 4byte counters with special
> handling of overflow for "bytes" counter, instead of just
> simply using double type for counters?
>
> Seems to be used only in memMeters, and is somewhat on
> the way...
>
> I'd like to convert memMeter to use doubles where large
> values are expected. Is there any reason not to do that?

Use a quad_t. That avoids an FPU operation.

Adrian

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