Fix clog2 function to be fast and universal #289
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Using floor of log2 with IEEE double floats here, suffers slowness and inaccuracy at huge values where the log2 would round incorrectly due a 53-bit mantissa.
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| Thank you for the PR! The change looks good to me. |
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| @yo96 feel free to merge if you think it is good! |
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Using floor of log2 with IEEE double floats here, suffers slowness and inaccuracy at huge values where the log2 would round incorrectly due a 53-bit mantissa.