Even if compilers are usually good enough, people (mostly in the market making/HFT space) are still doing this kind of stuff. For example, division (and to a le

Even if compilers are usually good enough, people (mostly in the market making/HFT space) are still doing this kind of stuff. For example, division (and to a lesser extent, multiplication) is still avoided/hacked around in the fast path for these kinds of strategies.