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From: "Paul A. Clarke via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
To: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
Cc: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>,
	"libc-alpha@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] math: Remove powerpc e_hypot
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:43:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211110144348.GB4930@li-24c3614c-2adc-11b2-a85c-85f334518bdb.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VE1PR08MB5599A27A3DE03FC5902CDF4F83939@VE1PR08MB5599.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 02:34:09PM +0000, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> > The patches see poorer performance on Power10, also:
> 
> Was that with the last patch to remove the redirects as well? The latest version
> is still slower even with that on AArch64...

Sorry that wasn't clear.  I tested with all 7 patches in the series applied.

PC

> I think the new algorithm will always be slower due to the dependent sqrt and
> division. So it's hard to improve unless we only use it for special cases (eg. when
> ax and ay are close). Returning sqrt (fma (ax, ax, ay * ay)) is about twice as fast
> and gives just over 1 ULP, so we're losing a lot of performance for a small ULP
> improvement.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-10 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-01 20:20 [PATCH v3 0/7] Improve hypot() Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-01 20:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] math: Simplify hypotf implementation Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-01 20:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] math: Use an improved algorithm for hypot (dbl-64) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-01 20:20 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] math: Use an improved algorithm for hypotl (ldbl-96) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-01 20:20 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] math: Use an improved algorithm for hypotl (ldbl-128) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-01 20:20 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] math: Remove powerpc e_hypot Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-09 19:28   ` Paul A. Clarke via Libc-alpha
2021-11-10 14:34     ` Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha
2021-11-10 14:43       ` Paul A. Clarke via Libc-alpha [this message]
2021-11-10 14:47       ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-11 17:05         ` Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha
2021-11-11 17:13           ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-11 19:48             ` Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha
2021-11-11 20:54               ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-01 20:20 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] i386: Move hypot implementation to C Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-11-01 20:20 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] math: Remove the error handling wrapper from hypot and hypotf Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha

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