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Comment by ObnoxiousJul

Unless you have a sensitivity to the initial conditions, hence you have a chaotic system. Which happens as fast as n body interactions in a gravitational field (but how many bodies/iterations do you need, which initial conditions makes the error a problem?)

But as I stated earlier, I think I have to check first because I am not that convinced any more on the performance point of view that JS has a problem, and float representation is not a JS problem, but a problem global to all CPUs.

Well it can be more than 10^-12 sometimes and the problem is not in physics but in trading when errors stack up. That's why I prefer when e-commerce solutions are based on fixed point arithmetic.

Even though canvases are still not homogeneous in terms of performance from browsers to browsers, some works fairly well.

parent ObnoxiousJul 14 years ago

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