[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR(s) PPC64/s390x/aarch64: Poor StrictMath performance due to non-optimized compilation

[Gustavo Romero]

Hi Andrew,

On 29-11-2016 13:35, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 29/11/16 09:41, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> Thanks Gustavo,
>>
>> the change looks good.
>>
>> So now we're just waiting for another review from somebody of the aarch64 folks.
>> Once we have that and the fc-request is approved I'll push the changes.
> 
> One thing I don't understand:
> 
> cos 0.17098435541865692 1m7.433s 0.1709843554185943 0m56.678s
> sin 1.7136493465700289 1m10.654s 1.7136493465700542 0m57.114s
> 
> Do you know what causes the lower digits to be different?  Is
> it that Math and StrictMath use different algorithms, not just
> different optimization levels?

I don't know exactly what's the root cause for that difference (in the result).
The difference is not present on x64, however on PPC64 even with -O0 (as it is
by now) that difference exists.

Math methods are intrisified, but StricMath are not. But I understand that Math
and StrictMath share the fdlibm code since I already changed some code in fdlibm
that reflected both on Math and StrictMath, so it's not clear to me where the
Math relaxation occurs on PPC64 (given that such a relaxation is allowed [1]).

For sure others much more experienced than I can comment about difference.


Regards,
Gustavo

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Math.html