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lfowles
on Feb 20, 2017
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How do compilers optimize divisions?
I'm not sure I follow your line of thought given the post is talking integer division and FDIV is floating point division.
amelius
on Feb 20, 2017
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Well, you can build a floating point DIV out of an integer DIV, I suppose. Roughly speaking, you divide the (integer) mantissa, and subtract the exponent, and you normalize.
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