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Re: sqrt via SSE2 registers
> > Isn't this library issue? Some glibc redefine the sqrt as asm statement.
>
> Ah, that sounds right. When I remove the "#include <math.h>" from the start
> of my test case, or compile with -D__NO_MATH_INLINES, I get the expected
> output using sqrtsd.
>
> Of course, -D__NO_MATH_INLINES is rather a blunt implement, particularly if
> the code also uses (say) trigonometric functions; is there any way short of
> editing /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h to get sqrt() alone generated with
> SSE2 instructions?
Gcc is able to inline the sin and cos as well, take a look to gcc manual.
I think for most code it is not OK to disable the include. Otherwise you
probablz need to edit mathinline.h.
>
> There's then the issue, though it's probably more one for the next glibc
> release after gcc-3.1 appears, of whether a sin() implementation using SSE2
> code and a suitable rational-function approximation could get adequate
> results in less than the 190-or-so cycles that fsin takes: I'm pretty sure
> it's possible, even given that the necessary two divides can't take less
> than 70 ticks and that one might want a table-lookup for argument reduction.
Yes, we need to address this issue eventually.
Honza
>
> Annoyingly, I suspect Intel have done this already though not under a
> GPL-compatible license: see "The Computation of Transcendental Functions on
> the IA-64 Architecture", Intel Technology Journal 1999Q4, and their Vector
> Math Library.
>
> Tom
>