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Create performance tips docs section #615

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Update docs/src/performance_tips.md
Co-Authored-By: oxinabox <oxinabox@ucc.asn.au>
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Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Below follow some Flux specific tips/reminders.
## Don't use more precision than you need.

Flux works great with all kinds of number types.
But often you do not need to be working with say `Float64` (let along `BigFloat`).
But often you do not need to be working with say `Float64` (let alone `BigFloat`).
Switching to `Float32` can give you a significant speed up,
not because the operations are faster, but because the memory usage is halved.
Which means allocations occur much faster.
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