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Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive… on Intel processors
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Daniel Lemire's blog
Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive… on Intel processors
We represent floating-point numbers using the IEEE standard. For very small numbers, the standard uses special subnormal numbers. Unfortunately, they have a reputation of making operations slow. Thus video game programmers and machine learning specialists…
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