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Glibc's Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations
The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations.
The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations. The FMA instruction set has been around for roughly the past decade with both Intel and AMD processors. In any event, Intel continues to deserve kudos for all their open-source toolchain optimizations over the years and especially when it comes to tuning the GNU C Library (glibc) for new x86_64 instruction set capabilities.
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