[DGD] Full double precision floats?

[Felix A. Croes]

Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, just curious if there's any cost/benefit factors not immediately
> obvious if DGD were to expand its floats from 36 bits to the full 64 bits.

I guess you mean 36 bits to 52 bits.  You'll get 16 more bits of mantissa,
not 28 bits.

The main drawback would be storage.  It would take more space, both in
memory and in snapshots.  And of course, snapshots would have to be
converted.

Regards,
Felix Croes