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cmovqyesterday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Compilers cannot do this optimization for floating point [1] unless you're compiling with -ffast-math. In general, don't rely on compilers to optimize floating point sub-expressions.

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/8bEjE9Wxx


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woadwarrior01yesterday at 6:26 PM

Right, I totally forgot about floating point non associativity.