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slavik81
on April 12, 2018
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Doubling Mono’s Float Speed
It's the x86 hardware which made the original mistake. Using 80-bit floats in the x87 FPU turned out to be a bad idea. Thankfully, standardizing SSE and SSE2 in x86-64 gave us a way out of that mess.
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