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Auto merge of #32256 - bluss:float-fast-math, r=alexcrichton
Add intrinsics for float arithmetic with `fast` flag enabled
Add intrinsics for float arithmetic with `fast` flag enabled
`fast` a.k.a UnsafeAlgebra is the flag for enabling all "unsafe"
(according to llvm) float optimizations.
See LangRef for more information http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#fast-math-flags
Providing these operations with less associativity rules (for example)
is useful to numerical applications.
For example, the summation loop:
let sum = 0.;
for element in data {
sum += *element;
}
Using the default floating point semantics, this loop expresses that the
floats must be added in a sequence, one after another. This constraint
is usually completely unintended, and it means that no auto-vectorization
is possible.
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