What's the difference between using CGFloat and float?

Question

I tend to use CGFloat all over the place, but I wonder if I get a senseless \"performance hit\" with this. CGFloat seems to be something \"heavier\" than float, right? At wh

Answer 1

CGFloat is a regular float on 32-bit systems and a double on 64-bit systems

typedef float CGFloat;// 32-bit
typedef double CGFloat;// 64-bit

So you won't get any performance penalty.