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dilmuff
11y ago
For distributed scenarios where the architecture, language and library are unspecified and effectively random, it is not. Not so long ago x87 80-bit precision was common while non x87 systems typically used single and double precision. Fina
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dilmuff
12y ago
This is just aggressive loop unrolling. Duff's device is specifically the syntactic curiosity in C/C++ that allows implementing unrolls with a switch and inner while statement.