> Surely this is just a matter of #defining a type to use in the  
> csound source and people can build binaries either way. It seems  
> quite reasonable to me that some platforms will run better with  
> floats, and others with doubles, so why not let it be different on  
> different platforms?

the sun platform automatically converts floats to doubles
i guess oher platforms that are optimised for doubles would do the same
and you have the option to force single precision with a compile flag -fsingle

more generally gnu cc has a similar flag
gcc has -fshort-double, 
-fshort-double
          Use the same size for double as for float

stephen

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