From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-05-11, Floris  wrote:   
   > seems to be a little bit faster but not much... the number of I/O writes are   
   > drastically lower though   
      
   Then I think the limiting factor is the routine that converts the real to a   
   string. Not much that you can do about that except handoptimizing that.   
      
   That routine probably resets the FPU to set the correct rounding type for   
   each operation again or so.   
      
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