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by cmovq 98 days ago
Compilers cannot do this optimization for floating point [1] unless you're compiling with -ffast-math. In general, don't rely on compilers to optimize floating point sub-expressions.

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/8bEjE9Wxx

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Right, I totally forgot about floating point non associativity.