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Pretty weird Intel's sine computation latency hasn't changed all that much over the years. Latencies have been pretty similar for 20 years. EDIT: That's a pape
by vardump 3y ago
Pretty weird Intel's sine computation latency hasn't changed all that much over the years. Latencies have been pretty similar for 20 years.
EDIT: That's a paper for a software library, not the CPU's internal implementation. Which is probably still done with CORDIC.
- bigbillheck 3y ago> EDIT: That's a paper for a software library, not the CPU's internal implementation. Unless you're seeing something I'm not, it's talking about x87, which hasn't been anything other than 'internal' since they stopped selling the 80486sx.
- vardump 3y agoAh you're right. Anyways I wonder why it's still so slow. 60-120 cycles sure looks like a CORDIC implementation, but perhaps not.