Faster Math ?

[Laurent Bourgès]

Hi,

The Marlin renderer (JEP265) uses few Math functions: sqrt, cbrt, acos...

Could you check if the current JDK uses C2 intrinsics or libfdm (native /
JNI overhead?) and tell me if such functions are already highly optimized
in jdk9 or 10 ?

Some people have implemented their own fast Math like Apache Commons Math
or JaFaMa libraries that are 10x faster for acos / cbrt.

I wonder if I should implement my own cbrt function (cubics) in pure java
as I do not need the highest accuracy but SPEED.

Would it sound possible to have a JDK FastMath public API (lots faster but
less accurate?)

Do you know if recent CPU (intel?) have dedicated instructions for such
math operations ?
Why not use it instead?
Maybe that's part of the new Vectorization API (panama) ?

Cheers,
Laurent Bourges