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   Hans Aberg to John Levine   
   Re: Optimization techniques   
   19 Apr 19 00:52:54   
   
   From: haberg-news@telia.com   
      
   On 2019-04-18 10:07, John Levine wrote:   
   > [Great reading list, thanks.  Floating add and multiply commute but   
   > they don't associate.  a+b should be the sams as b+a, but (a+b)+c not   
   > the same as a+(b+c).  -John]   
      
   Actually, LLVM has an optimization assuming associativity, which is   
   legit with sufficiently high precision.   
      
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