Lokathor/safe_arch

Put more verbs in the glossary

Lokathor opened this issue · 3 comments

Lokathor commented

For any operation name that isn't already so common it's in the rust core lib (eg: add and sqrt) we should put them into the verb glossary.

And if it gets big enough, we might want to put the verb glossary on its own page.

Soveu commented

Ordered vs Unordered comparisons
(answer from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8627331/what-does-ordered-unordered-comparison-mean)
An ordered comparison checks if neither operand is NaN. Conversely, an unordered comparison checks if either operand is a NaN.

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Soveu commented

Fused operation
For example when calculating normally a * b + c (a, b, c are floats), there are two rounding operations:

  • after a * b
  • after adding c to previous result

Fusing these operations means only one rounding at the end is performed.
This happens because internally CPUs calculate with slightly higher precision

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