int vs. float in benchmark testing

[Peter Hansen]

Bart Nessux wrote:
> 
> Uh, yes. We're benchmarking different processors. An IBM PPC 970 does
> things differently than an Intel P4. Running the same bit of Python code
> on both makes for an interesting comparison. Since processors handle
> ints and floats differently, it is useful for me to test them both.

Then why not get yourself some real benchmarks?

Benchmarks are a tricky thing.  Unless your real code is doing
something that looks an awful lot like the above (looping and adding
1.0 to things a lot), it seems unlikely what you learn will really be
what you wanted to learn.

-Peter