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Not at all. For all it's faults, floating point is incredibly fast. It's not some convenience hack that we lazy programmers have come up with, it's an incredibly quick way to do numerical computation. It will always have it's place (sometimes even in finance to represent money, to many people's shock).

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To add to that, in modern processors FP calculation is faster than integer calculation, both in terms of latency and throughput (as long as you don't hit subnormal numbers). This is very unintuitive and mostly due to disproportional demands.