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authorWilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>2021-03-08 17:07:39 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2021-12-13 09:02:34 -0300
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math: Use an improved algorithm for hypot (dbl-64)
This implementation is based on the 'An Improved Algorithm for
hypot(a,b)' by Carlos F. Borges [1] using the MyHypot3 with the
following changes:

 - Handle qNaN and sNaN.
 - Tune the 'widely varying operands' to avoid spurious underflow
   due the multiplication and fix the return value for upwards
   rounding mode.
 - Handle required underflow exception for denormal results.

The main advantage of the new algorithm is its precision: with a
random 1e9 input pairs in the range of [DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX], glibc
current implementation shows around 0.34% results with an error of
1 ulp (3424869 results) while the new implementation only shows
0.002% of total (18851).

The performance result are also only slight worse than current
implementation.  On x86_64 (Ryzen 5900X) with gcc 12:

Before:

  "hypot": {
   "workload-random": {
    "duration": 3.73319e+09,
    "iterations": 1.12e+08,
    "reciprocal-throughput": 22.8737,
    "latency": 43.7904,
    "max-throughput": 4.37184e+07,
    "min-throughput": 2.28361e+07
   }
  }

After:

  "hypot": {
   "workload-random": {
    "duration": 3.7597e+09,
    "iterations": 9.8e+07,
    "reciprocal-throughput": 23.7547,
    "latency": 52.9739,
    "max-throughput": 4.2097e+07,
    "min-throughput": 1.88772e+07
   }
  }

Co-Authored-By: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09481.pdf
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