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Comment by StilesCrisis

36 minutes ago

It's just multiplication. Floating multiply is extraordinarily fast.

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lacedeconstruct  29 minutes ago

The difference between 20 cycles and 1 clock cycle in a hot loop is very noticeable

  • Sesse__  7 minutes ago

    Useful, then, that you can start several vectorized floating-point muls each cycle. (E.g., most modern x86 are 3/0.5 cycles for vmulps. No 20 cycles in sight.)

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