Faster Math ?

[Laurent Bourgès]

Thanks, andrew.

I searched on the web and I understand now:
Fdlibm native library has been ported in Java code for jdk9 (like the
jafama library).

Cbrt changeset:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/7dc9726cfa82

I will anyway compare jdk9 with latest jafama 2.2 to have an up-to-date
comparison.

Does somebody else need a faster but less accurate math library ?
JaFaMa has such alternative methods...

Preserving double-precision may be very costly in terms of performance and
sometimes such accuracy is not required.

Last question:
Is there a sin & cos function returning both values for the same angle ?
It is very useful to compute exact fourrier transform...
It is called sinAndCos(double wrappers) in jafama.

Cheers,
Laurent

Le 9 nov. 2017 17:08, "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat.com> a écrit :

> On 09/11/17 15:02, Laurent Bourgès wrote:
> > --- testing cbrt(double) = pow(double, 1/3) ---
> > Loop on     Math.pow(double, 1/3), args in [-10.0,10.0], took 0.739 s
> > Loop on FastMath.cbrt(double), args in [-10.0,10.0], took 0.166 s
> > Loop on     Math.pow(double, 1/3), args in [-0.7,0.7], took 0.746 s
> > Loop on FastMath.cbrt(double), args in [-0.7,0.7], took 0.166 s
> > Loop on     Math.pow(double, 1/3), args in [-0.1,0.1], took 0.742 s
> > Loop on FastMath.cbrt(double), args in [-0.1,0.1], took 0.165 s
> > Loop on     Math.pow(double, 1/3), args in all magnitudes, took 0.753 s
> > Loop on FastMath.cbrt(double), args in all magnitudes, took 0.244
> >
> > Conclusion:
> > - acos / asin / atan functions are quite slow: it confirms these are not
> > optimized by hotspot intrinsics.
> >
> > - cbrt() is slower than sqrt() : 1.1s vs 0.1 => 10x slower
> > - cbrt() is slower than pow(1/3) : 1.1s vs 0.7s => 50% slower
>
> No.  cbrt() is faster than pow(1/3) : 0.24 vs 0.75
>
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> Andrew Haley
> Java Platform Lead Engineer
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