Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?

Welcome to the world of denormalized floating-point! They can wreak havoc on performance!!! Denormal (or subnormal) numbers are kind of a hack to get some extra values very close to zero out of the floating point representation. Operations on denormalized floating-point can be tens to hundreds of times slower than on normalized floating-point. This is … Read more

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