On 23 January 2011 14:57, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 23/01/2011 15:24, Gilles Sadowski a écrit : >> Hello. > > Hi Gilles, > >> >>> [...] >>> >>> I hope I will have a reliable version of scalb in the next few hours. >>> >>> Once scalb is ready, I will also commit hypot. It is already coded and >>> teste, but it relies on scalb to avoid overflow/underflow (and in fact >>> it helps me testing scalb). >> >> Do you keep an eye on the timing tests while comparing Math and FastMath? > > Not yet. You can give it a try by simply temporarily removing the > @Ignore notation in the performance test in FastMathTest to see if we > have done a good job or not.
Now in separate class: mvn test -Dtest=FastMathTestPerformance >> >> Pardon the naive question but it would be a pity to conclude that fixing >> FastMath for the extreme values will not make it fast any longer... > > For widely used functions like cos, sin and the like, yes it would be a > problem. For functions which appear only very seldom in general > algorithms like scalb or nextAfter, it could be accepted. In fact, these > versions are more useful as a way to backport some features from Java 6 > to Java 5. > > best regards, > Luc > >> >> >> Best, >> Gilles >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
