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		BlissWaves on Aug 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One does not simply calculate the absolute value Alterantively one can use Math.abs().

jonas21 on Aug 23, 2021 [–]

Not if you're writing Math.abs().

The motivation for the article is this change in OpenJDK, where they got a 10% performance improvement by switching from the single-branch implementation to the branchless one:

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/4711

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