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Precision

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Type Alias Precision 

Source 
pub type Precision = f32;
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Represents the floating-point precision used specifically for the rendering stage.

While data processing and coordinate transformations should be performed in f64 to maintain computational accuracy and prevent rounding errors, we convert to Precision (f32) during the final draw calls for the following reasons:

  1. GPU Hardware Native: Modern Graphics APIs (WGPU, Metal) are optimized for f32. Using f32 for rendering structures allows direct GPU memory mapping.

  2. Memory Efficiency: Halves the memory footprint for large point sets (e.g., in scatter plots) when passing data to the rendering backends.

  3. SVG Size Reduction: f32 provides sufficient precision for screen-space while keeping the generated XML string lengths shorter.