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title: "Rust: libm vs micromath speed comparison"
author: "James Pace"
date: "2024/01/16"
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Relevant for comparison:
1. Distance between two points.
2. Dicretizing a point into a grid.


On laptop libm was way faster...
~0.23ms compared to 0.70ms in release
0.73ms compared to 8.66ms in debug

Switching to powi micromath
0.3ms in release
3.0ms in debug
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