huonw/fast-math

Inverse square root

tkaitchuck opened this issue · 0 comments

There are hardware instructions on X86 for approximate inverse square root and square root which can improved upon via newton's method.
See the for loop at the bottom of bodies_advance here: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/program/nbody-rust-7.html
It would look a lot better if this example could be re-written to use purely safe, normal looking rust code.