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Re: [PATCH 5/5] Inline all support functions for sin and cos

From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot gcc at googlemail dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at sourceware dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:36 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Inline all support functions for sin and cos
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> On Aug 23 2016, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> 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?
>
>> translates to about 2.1% in the tonto test.
>
> What does "tonto test" mean?

https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/465.tonto.html



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> Andreas.
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References:
- [PATCH 0/5] sin/cos/sincos cleanups
  - From: Siddhesh Poyarekar
- [PATCH 5/5] Inline all support functions for sin and cos
  - From: Siddhesh Poyarekar
- Re: [PATCH 5/5] Inline all support functions for sin and cos
  - From: Andreas Schwab

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