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In particular, fast approximate inverse square root is an x86 instruction, and not a super new one. I'd be surprised if it wasn't in every major instruction set.

This is an interesting issue. I suspect training on datasets from places like Github would be likely to provide lots of "this is a neat idea I saw in a blog post about how they did things in the 90's" codes.




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