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Does calling sqrtf always result in a single asm instruction?

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Alex

I was recently running some performance benchmarks across different platforms to understand the cost of some simple mathematic functions such as sqrtf and quickly noticed, under certain circumstances compilers such as MSVC, Clang and GCC by default will not generate Continue Reading →

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