Proposal: Remove or reduce math-finite.h

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Mar 22 21:43:00 GMT 2019


On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:

> > i486/i586/i686
> >        On these platforms pow, log, log2, exp, and exp2 are not
> >        aliases of the finite versions.
> 
> These are old x87 assembler implementations. Performance would
> improve if they were removed.

Do you have benchmark figures to justify that (like the ones HJ provided 
when removing float versions of such functions)?

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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