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Comment by Cold_Miserable

7 hours ago

x87 should have been killed off. It would have forced lazy game developers to use SSE around the 2005 era.

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WalterBright  5 hours ago

Game floating point precision doesn't matter much - speed does. But if you're doing numerical analysis, it does matter.

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