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| author | Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> | 2018-06-13 17:57:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> | 2018-09-19 10:04:51 +0100 |
| commit | 424c4f60ed6190e2ea0e72e0873bf3ebcbbf5448 (patch) | |
| tree | 52fbd60de3d3b1e99208b3018cf79ee8a230a878 /NEWS | |
| parent | dab9c3488e86d5304f3e4b778933760374494a82 (diff) | |
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Add new pow implementation
The algorithm is exp(y * log(x)), where log(x) is computed with about 1.3*2^-68 relative error (1.5*2^-68 without fma), returning the result in two doubles, and the exp part uses the same algorithm (and lookup tables) as exp, but takes the input as two doubles and a sign (to handle negative bases with odd integer exponent). The __exp1 internal symbol is no longer necessary. There is separate code path when fma is not available but the worst case error is about 0.54 ULP in both cases. The lookup table and consts for log are 4168 bytes. The .rodata+.text is decreased by 37908 bytes on aarch64. The non-nearest rounding error is less than 1 ULP. Improvements on Cortex-A72 compared to current glibc master: pow thruput: 2.40x in [0.01 11.1]x[0.01 11.1] pow latency: 1.84x in [0.01 11.1]x[0.01 11.1] Tested on aarch64-linux-gnu (defined __FP_FAST_FMA, TOINT_INTRINSICS) and arm-linux-gnueabihf (!defined __FP_FAST_FMA, !TOINT_INTRINSICS) and x86_64-linux-gnu (!defined __FP_FAST_FMA, !TOINT_INTRINSICS) and powerpc64le-linux-gnu (defined __FP_FAST_FMA, !TOINT_INTRINSICS) targets. * NEWS: Mention pow improvements. * math/Makefile (type-double-routines): Add e_pow_log_data. * sysdeps/generic/math_private.h (__exp1): Remove. * sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_pow_log_data.c: New file. * sysdeps/ia64/fpu/e_pow_log_data.c: New file. * sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/Makefile (CFLAGS-e_pow.c): Allow fma contraction. * sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_exp.c (__exp1): Remove. (exp_inline): Remove. (__ieee754_exp): Only single double input is handled. * sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c: Rewrite. * sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow_log_data.c: New file. * sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/math_config.h (issignaling_inline): Define. (__pow_log_data): Define. * sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/upow.h: Remove. * sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/upow.tbl: Remove. * sysdeps/m68k/m680x0/fpu/e_pow_log_data.c: New file. * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/Makefile (CFLAGS-e_pow-fma.c): Allow fma contraction. (CFLAGS-e_pow-fma4.c): Likewise.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f76ada94d3..53d7bd09b3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Major new features: to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default configured location. -* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf. +* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf. * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments. |