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Bruce Evans a00672cff9 Use a better method of scaling by 2**k. Instead of adding to the
exponent bits of the reduced result, construct 2**k (hopefully in
parallel with the construction of the reduced result) and multiply by
it.  This tends to be much faster if the construction of 2**k is
actually in parallel, and might be faster even with no parallelism
since adjustment of the exponent requires a read-modify-wrtite at an
unfortunate time for pipelines.

In some cases involving exp2* on amd64 (A64), this change saves about
40 cycles or 30%.  I think it is inherently only about 12 cycles faster
in these cases and the rest of the speedup is from partly-accidentally
avoiding compiler pessimizations (the construction of 2**k is now
manually scheduled for good results, and -O2 doesn't always mess this
up).  In most cases on amd64 (A64) and i386 (A64) the speedup is about
20 cycles.  The worst case that I found is expf on ia64 where this
change is a pessimization of about 10 cycles or 5%.  The manual
scheduling for plain exp[f] is harder and not as tuned.

Details specific to expm1*:
- the saving is closer to 12 cycles than to 40 for expm1* on i386 (A64).
  For some reason it is much larger for negative args.
- also convert to __FBSDID().
2008-02-07 09:42:19 +00:00
bin - Roll-back attempts to mimic rename(2) atomicity introduced in 1.47, 2007-12-27 11:33:42 +00:00
cddl Remove _SOLARIS_C_SOURCE now that it doesn't do anything in FreeBSD 2007-11-28 22:58:09 +00:00
compat/opensolaris Add more OpenSolaris compatibilty headers. 2007-11-28 21:40:07 +00:00
contrib As per discussion, commit experimental metadata for my contrib packages. 2008-02-06 23:06:24 +00:00
crypto Fix the Xlist so it actually works with 'tar -X', and update the upgrade 2008-02-06 23:14:24 +00:00
etc From the 4 February 2008 update: 2008-02-07 06:28:02 +00:00
games A real gem from freebsd-current@ 2008-01-10 14:51:24 +00:00
gnu - Rework the kld support to hook into GDB's shared library support. 2008-01-29 23:44:34 +00:00
include Per discussion on -threads, rename _islocked_np() to _isowned_np(). 2008-02-06 19:34:31 +00:00
kerberos5 While checking over the libraries for 7.0-REL Kris found the following 2007-11-20 04:20:32 +00:00
lib Use a better method of scaling by 2**k. Instead of adding to the 2008-02-07 09:42:19 +00:00
libexec For un-prototyped static inline functions declared in pthread_md.h on 2007-12-01 14:24:44 +00:00
release - Add extra paths for GEOM_LIBRARY_PATH to the fixit environment to enable all 2008-02-05 14:06:15 +00:00
rescue o Build geom for all platforms. 2007-11-04 00:44:10 +00:00
sbin Fix typo. 2008-02-06 08:03:27 +00:00
secure - Bump share library version which were missed in last bump 2007-06-18 18:47:54 +00:00
share Add a note that the hptrr driver supersedes the rr232x driver. 2008-02-06 03:30:13 +00:00
sys - Add THREAD_LOCKPTR_ASSERT() to assert that the thread's lock points at 2008-02-07 06:55:38 +00:00
tools mutex_islocked_np -> mutex_isowned_np 2008-02-06 19:41:05 +00:00
usr.bin Add my birthday. 2008-02-05 19:34:54 +00:00
usr.sbin Add -P <port> option to allow binding to a specific port. 2008-02-03 17:39:37 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy new year 2008! 2007-12-31 22:09:19 +00:00
LOCKS Once the release goes out, RELENG_7_* will need approval from so@. 2008-01-24 22:07:03 +00:00
MAINTAINERS OLDCARD is gone, release imp's lock. 2008-01-26 21:58:52 +00:00
Makefile Add a note pointing to build(7) for more info. 2008-01-30 19:33:18 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Satisfy a particularly obstinate nit-picker :) 2008-02-05 15:41:58 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Revert rev. 1.128, we have a hard link generated from new 2008-02-06 19:45:45 +00:00
README Simply running ``make world'' will bomb unless you dig up the 2006-06-07 03:33:48 +00:00
UPDATING Our fts(3) API, as inherited from 4.4BSD, suffers from integer 2008-01-26 17:09:40 +00:00

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