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>> It also gets in the way of elegance and truth. Where did that come from in the article?

Thank you for linking that!

The reason for writing out all of the x multiplications like that is that I was hoping the compiler detect such a pattern perform an optimization for me. Mat Godbolt's "Advent of C…

I did see that, but isn't the vast majority of that page talking about acos() instead?

I did scan some (major) open source games and graphics related project and found a few of them using `std::asin()`. I plan on submitting some patches.

Thanks!

When I was working on this project, I was trying to restrict myself to the architecture of the original Ray Tracing in One Weekend book series. I am aware that things are not as SI…

You'd be surprised how it actually is worth the effort, even just a 1% improvement. If you have the time, this is a great talk to listen to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-…

Funny enough that fdlimb implementation of asin() did come up in my research. I believe it might have been more performant in the past. But taking a quick scan of `e_asin.c`, I see…

These are books that my uni courses never had me read. I'm a little shocked at times at how my degree program skimped on some of the more famous texts.

Wait, what? Do you have a resource I could read up on about that? That is moderately concerning if your math isn't portable across chips.

> floating point bithacks The forbidden magic