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by grogers 1255 days ago
IIRC we used -ffast-math for numerical simulations of radar cross sections. Fast math was a decent perf win but didn't have any negative effects on the results.

Most programs don't care about the difference between ((a+b)+c) vs (a+(b+c)). Why bother with NaNs if you know you can't get them? Etc.