I thought "division is slow" was one of the more widely-known performance heuris...

blt on May 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 an...

I thought "division is slow" was one of the more widely-known performance heuristics. I genuinely wonder how much of the division load in typical programs is an essential part of the problem vs. programmers not knowing/caring about slow division.