title: Is using double faster than float?
body: <p>Double values store higher precision and are double the size of a float, but are Intel CPUs optimized for floats?</p>
  
  <p>That is, are double operations just as fast or faster than float operations for +, -, *, and /?</p>
  
  <p>Does the answer change for 64-bit architectures?</p>