At least it should be a bit less surprising now that every CPU has SSE instructions where a 32 bit float is actually stored in a 32 bit vector register instead

At least it should be a bit less surprising now that every CPU has SSE instructions where a 32 bit float is actually stored in a 32 bit vector register instead of a 80 bit FPU register that may be dropped to a 32 bit memory location whenever your compiler feels like it. Makes the results a lot more consistent.