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by pyrolistical 198 days ago
For something this short that is pure math, why not just hand write asm for the most popular platforms? Prevents compiler from deoptimizing in the future.

Have a fallback with this algorithm for all other platforms.

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This pretty much is assembly written as C++... there's not much the compiler can ruin.
Because that isn’t portable?