Comment on Quake's Fast Inverse Square RootparentComments−maximilianburke14yI disagree -- the amount of silicon dedicated to this type of operation is miniscule compared to the caches on modern processors. Removing hardware floating point reciprocal square root isn't going to have any noticeable effect on power consumption.
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I disagree -- the amount of silicon dedicated to this type of operation is miniscule compared to the caches on modern processors. Removing hardware floating point reciprocal square root isn't going to have any noticeable effect on power consumption.