Re:How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-...
by namibj on Saturday March 06, 2021 @12:03PM
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Modern CPUs, like Zen2, have vastly more f64 multiplier throughput than 64 bit integer multiplier throughput.
This goes so far, that Intel added an AVX512 instruction to expose this 52/53 bit multiplier for integer operations, to accelerate bigint cryptography calculations like RSA and ECC.
This goes so far, that Intel added an AVX512 instruction to expose this 52/53 bit multiplier for integer operations, to accelerate bigint cryptography calculations like RSA and ECC.