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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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