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		anthk 76 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beware of Fast-Math They are, just check anything fixed-point for the 486SX vs anything floating under a 486DX. It's faster scaling and sum and print the desired precision than operating on floats.

stingraycharles 73 days ago [–]

Is that also the case for modern architectures? Eg is there SIMD fixed precision?

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