Subnormal floats are expensive — but only on Intel, benchmarks show
lemire · x · 2026-09-15
Daniel Lemire revisits the reputation of IEEE subnormal floating-point numbers as slow. His benchmark results indicate that on recent processor architectures the performance penalty may now only affect Intel chips.
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