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Is this true?
I am actually struggling to remember the last time I did a sort with a float/double as the key--especially in a performance bounded context
... <thinking> ...
Aha. Graphic engine. Octtree with coordinates.
I really had to think about that.
So, I'm a bit skeptical of float sorting happening a "lot".
Is this perhaps an ML primitive somewhere?
Is this true?
I am actually struggling to remember the last time I did a sort with a float/double as the key--especially in a performance bounded context
... <thinking> ...
Aha. Graphic engine. Octtree with coordinates.
I really had to think about that.
So, I'm a bit skeptical of float sorting happening a "lot".
Is this perhaps an ML primitive somewhere?