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Make tanh faster when it lacks of HAVE_TANH

Added by qitar888 (Chia-sheng Chen) over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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Target version:

[ruby-core:76657]

Description

I found tanh(x) in math.c return sinh(x) / cosh(x), which function call is a waist of time.

So I changed to (exp(2x) - 1) / (exp(2x) + 1), the extract form of tanh().

But if HAVE_SINH and HAVE_COSH are defined, only HAVE_TANH undefined (a weird library but possible)
Then the origin formulae are faster.

Eventually the solution is to determined whether HAVE_SINH/COSH exists, and set the formulae accordingly.

Testing Code:

require 'benchmark/ips'

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.config(:times => 1000, :warmup => 5)
  x.report(RUBY_DESCRIPTION) { Math.tanh(12.345) } 
end

Outcome:

###### Origin with HAVE_SINH, HAVE_COSH, HAVE_TANH all undef
Warming up --------------------------------------
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-08-02 trunk 55797) [x86_64-linux]
                       122.226k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-08-02 trunk 55797) [x86_64-linux]
                          1.856M (± 4.9%) i/s -      9.289M in   5.016718s

###### All tag undifined, modified tanh()
Warming up --------------------------------------
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-08-02 trunk 55797) [x86_64-linux]
                       165.404k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-08-02 trunk 55797) [x86_64-linux]
                          2.857M (± 2.5%) i/s -     14.390M in   5.039981s

###### Only HAVE_TANH undifined
Warming up --------------------------------------
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-08-02 trunk 55797) [x86_64-linux]
                       205.575k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-08-02 trunk 55797) [x86_64-linux]
                          3.732M (± 2.2%) i/s -     18.707M in   5.015756s

About 50% improvement when all three tags are undefined.
Doesn't drop when only HAVE_TANH is undefined.

BTW, I want to ask how to send a patch.
Adding a feature here and attaching my patch is enough?

Files

Update-tanh-function-to-be-faster.patch (598 Bytes) Update-tanh-function-to-be-faster.patch

qitar888 (Chia-sheng Chen), 08/02/2016 08:42 AM