Re: Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:16:58PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Consider the algorithm: A number is stored as base + exponent. To
> multiply two numbers you can multiply the bases and add the exponents.
> OTOH, if you store the decimal inside the data, now you have to extract
> it again before you can do any calculating. So you've traded CPU time
> for disk space. Is diskspace cheaper or more expensive than CPU?
> Debatable I guess.

Well, I/O bandwidth is much more expensive than either CPU or disk
space...
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