std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 17:49:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I may have misused the term, perhaps the proper term is 
> "painting"?
>
> Anyway, it means to write data of one type to the union, and 
> read out a
> different type. E.g., write a double into a union of double and
> ubyte[double.sizeof], and then read out the latter, in order to 
> get at
> the bit representation of the double without using pointer 
> casting

Oh, ok that make sense. I have never heard that called any form 
of painting before. I never realized that had a name at all 
really, just thought it was a thing you did with unions. Thank 
for the clarification.