Will decreasing the precision of intermediate variables improve performance of code?

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Here’s an example of performances getting worse when performing Float32 math involving an Int64 loop variable.

The solution in that case was to explicitly use an Int32 loop variable:

for i in Int32(1):N
  ...
end

However that Int32(1) is rather unpleasant to look at and, notably, very easy to forget with disastrous consequences.

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