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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:26:23 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Damian McGuckin <damianm@....com.au>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Possible Mistype in exp.c
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> it's not the division that's supposed to raise the exception,
> but the cast (although the division might in case of an x with
> sufficiently large magnitude).
I did not think about that. An interesting approach.
> in any case i plan to completely rewrite exp and other
> important math functions:
>
> https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2018/12/08/1
Thanks for the pointer.
> that implementation is >2x faster in general than the old fdlibm code as
> well as more precise.
It is hard to argue to 2x faster. Mind you, I certainly found the ARM
code much harder to read. Interesting none the less.
Regards - Damian
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