by frag.machine » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:42 pm
Really weird. I vaguely remember Carmack mentioning at some point they toyed with the idea of using fixed point integer instead floats but quickly ditched that and just jumped to FPU supported floats. Maybe back in 1995 it was a wise move, and since them everyone accepted that as true without revalidating things.
EDIT: OR, we are facing a severe performance issue with the current versions of MSVC math libs. Are you testing this with debug or release builds ?
I guess I'll do some tests myself later.
I know FrikaC made a cgi-bin version of the quakec interpreter once and wrote part of his website in QuakeC 
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