Elementary functions in JDK are slower than necessary and not as accurate as
they could be.
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Key: MATH-375
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-375
Project: Commons Math
Issue Type: New Feature
Environment: JDK 1.4 - 1.6
Reporter: William Rossi
I would like to contribute improved versions on exp(), log(), pow(), etc. to
the project. Please refer to this discussion thread
http://markmail.org/message/zyeoguw6gwtofm62.
I have developed over the past year a set of elementary functions similar to
those in java.lang.Math, but with the following characteristics:
* Higher performance.
* Better accuracy. Results are accurate to slightly more that +/- 0.5 ULP.
* Pure Java. The standard Math class is impleneted via JNI, and thus takes a
performance hit.
Note that some functions such as exp are nearly twice as fast in my
implementation. I've seen it 3 times faster on different processors. The
preformance varies by the relative speed of calculation vs memory lookups.
The functions are implemented as tables of values in extra precision (approx 70
bits), and then interpolated with a minimax polynomial.
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