Why do we round corners?

Re:Why do we round corners? by bobbylarrybobby on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:12PM (#30342247)

Were square roots really so slow that integer addition in a loop was faster??

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Re:Why do we round corners? by the2and7 on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:28PM (#30342372)

68000 processor on the Mac didn't support floating point operations.

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Re:Why do we round corners? by dahfizz on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:55PM (#30342942)

I wouldn't be surprised if that is still the case. Rule of thumb is that sqrt is on the order of 10x as expensive as integer addition, though this obviously depends on a lot of factors.

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