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Offline (Male) Goombert
Reply #15 Posted on: May 05, 2019, 08:09:07 pm

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We finally got around to this and the var is now as fast as variant in benchmarks.
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/issues/1617
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/pull/1676
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Offline (Male) Josh @ Dreamland
Reply #16 Posted on: May 06, 2019, 10:10:26 pm

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The bigger takeaway is that variant is frequently as fast as double. Not always; depends on C++ optimizations, right now. When it's not as fast as double, it's still pretty fast.
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