Would out-of-order execution produce the same out-of-order order over, say, 10 
executions?

The clock() results between GCC and TCC are similar. But the ASM looks fairly 
different. I'm still not seeing rsqrt or sqrt instructions even after 
specifying short floats throughout and using sqrtf(), with or without -O0, for 
whatever that's worth. But the speed of the 1/sqrtf() increased quite a bit 
from 1/sqrt().

gepr@cormac:~/lang/c$ ./gcc.out 
1/sqrt() took 0.076633 s
Q_rsqrt() took 0.473007 s

gepr@cormac:~/lang/c$ ./tcc.out 
1/sqrt() took 0.078259 s
Q_rsqrt() took 0.46164 s

On 1/8/21 8:46 AM, Stephen Taylor wrote:
>       Because the hardware environment has changed, and the tradeoffs on 
> integer and floating-point arithmetic are different. (Like it says in the 
> Wikipedia article.)  Out of order execution might be messing up your 
> measurements, too.

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