• farcaster@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    I doubt doing it in software like that outperforms sqrtss/sqrtsd. Modern CPUs can do the conversions and the floating point sqrt in approximately 20-30 cycles total. That’s comparable to one integer division. But I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong.

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      8 months ago

      Integer sqrt can be used for integers with any length, not only for integers fit into f64