Just committed new versions of correctly rounded sinf, cosf, tanf, asinf, acosf, and atanf that are about 20-30% faster than our previous versions. #RLIBM https://github.com/rutgers-apl/The-RLIBM-Project
Interesting:
“High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries For 32-Bit Floating Point Representations”, Jay Lim and Santosh Nagarakatte, SIGPLAN (https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/08/26/high-performance-correctly-rounded-math-libraries-for-32-bit-floating-point-representations/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28318425
#Math #Precision #NumericalAnalysis #FloatingPoint #Rounding #RLIBM
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