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| | [AI summary] A deep dive into the complexities and pitfalls of comparing different numeric types (integers and floating-point) across various programming languages and the CPU architecture
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| | Author's note: this article used to be called "What Every ComputerProgrammer Should Know About Floating Point, part 1". Some peoplenoted that this was perh...
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| | I read somewhere that a bitwise left shift was a faster method of removing a fraction of a floating point number in Javascript than using parseInt or Math.floor(). I wasn't surprised that parseInt was slow, since I think it parses the number as a string, but the left shift being faster than Math.floor() was a bit more puzzling to me. So I decided to make a JSPerf test to compare those three methods. Read on for the full results
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