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Re: [PATCH 5/5] Inline all support functions for sin and cos
On Tuesday 30 August 2016 01:22 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> The support functions for sin and cos have a lot of identical
>> functionality, so inlining them gives a pretty decent jump in
>> functionality: ~19% in the sincos function. On SPEC2006 this
> What is the metric of functionality?
Sorry, that was a typo, it should read as "a pretty decent jump in
performance" in the sincos function microbenchmark in benchtests.
>> translates to about 2.1% in the tonto test.
> What does "tonto test" mean?
The tonto test is part of the CPU2006 benchmark and it uses sincos and
its children functions for a little under half of its execution time.
Siddhesh