Why You Should Use stableNorm() Instead of norm()

Why You Should Use stableNorm() Instead of norm(): A Lesson from Eigen Code Review

A one-word review comment on my Eigen MR revealed that hand-rolling normalization with .norm() silently breaks on extreme inputs. Eigen already had the fix — I just wasn’t using it.

March 27, 2026 · 5 min · Pavel Guzenfeld