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Re: Proposal: Remove or reduce math-finite.h

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco dot Dijkstra at arm dot com>
Cc: Steve Ellcey <sellcey at marvell dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Steve dot Ellcey at cavium dot com" <Steve dot Ellcey at cavium dot com>, nd <nd at arm dot com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:43:14 +0000
Subject: Re: Proposal: Remove or reduce math-finite.h
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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)?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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