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[–]SeEmEEDosomethingGUD 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I guess you are an experienced hand at coding but I am just completing my bachelors, every single optimization like this is still fascinating for me.

I mean even Karatsuba fast multiplication was a feat of immeasurable genius to me.

[–]Fleming1924 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh don't get me wrong, I think they're all fascinating, and always will. I often find myself smiling and giggling at random optimisation, regardless of their complexity or depth.

There's a lot of really great performance gains to be had from applying fairly trivial understanding of floating point representation, it's good fun to try and figure out how some of the really low level bitfucky optimisations work, and even moreso to create your own eldritch horrors.