Optimizing hypot()

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > I think hypot2 could be improved much, if it is recognized as builtin
 > and optimized for sse/sse2. Is someone working on such
 > transformations?
 > Thanks,
 > Richard.

Roger Sayle has done a lot of work recently on builtin math functions,
perhaps we can impose on him a bit more to do this too.

IMHO hypot, cbrt and perhaps ldexp are ripe for picking next.

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu