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Posted: **Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:52 am**

Hi Carlo,

Do you have any experience with seeing noticable performance gains when you use float instead of double for the Real primitive? Were the losses in simulation fidelity significant ? I haven't been able to find anything in the docs showing the conditions under which one vs. the other could/should be used.

Thanks!

- John

Posted: **Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:55 am**

In general, on 64bit machines it's better to use double for reasons of numerical stability. Float is for when ARGoS is crosscompiled on real robots.

Posted: **Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:51 pm**

Got it, thanks!

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