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Re: sorting floats by casting to integer

by Edouard A. :: Rate this Message:

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>I've been investigating why float_sort is so much faster than std::sort on
>x86 processors, and why sorting integers is so much faster than float_sort,
>and came to the conclusion that floating-point comparisons are extremely
>slow on x86.

Hey Steven,

Is it true even with SSE3 optimizations turned on and data aligned to
16-bytes boundaries?

Which compiler were you using?

Regards.

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Edouard

 
 

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