This allows the `packetmath` tests to pass for AVX512 on skylake.
Made `half` and `bfloat16` consistent in terms of ops they support.
Note the `log` tests are currently disabled for `bfloat16` since
they fail due to poor precision (they were previously disabled for
`Packet8bf` via test function specialization -- I just removed that
specialization and disabled it in the generic test).
2. Simplify handling of special cases by taking advantage of the fact that the
builtin vrsqrt approximation handles negative, zero and +inf arguments correctly.
This speeds up the SSE and AVX implementations by ~20%.
3. Make the Newton-Raphson formula used for rsqrt more numerically robust:
Before: y = y * (1.5 - x/2 * y^2)
After: y = y * (1.5 - y * (x/2) * y)
Forming y^2 can overflow for very large or very small (denormalized) values of x, while x*y ~= 1. For AVX512, this makes it possible to compute accurate results for denormal inputs down to ~1e-42 in single precision.
4. Add a faster double precision implementation for Knights Landing using the vrsqrt28 instruction and a single Newton-Raphson iteration.
Benchmark results: https://bitbucket.org/snippets/rmlarsen/5LBq9o
Depending on instruction set, significant speedups are observed for the vectorized path:
log1p wall time is reduced 60-93% (2.5x - 15x speedup)
expm1 wall time is reduced 0-85% (1x - 7x speedup)
The scalar path is slower by 20-30% due to the extra branch needed to handle +infinity correctly.
Full benchmarks measured on Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 here: https://bitbucket.org/snippets/rmlarsen/MXBkpM
This commit fixes the AVX512 implementations of psqrt in the same
way that 3ed67cb0bb
fixed the AVX2 version of this function. The
AVX512 versions of psqrt incorrectly return -0.0 for negative
values, instead of NaN. Fixing the issues requires adding
some additional instructions that slow down the algorithms. A
similar test to the one used in 3ed67cb0bb
shows that the
corrected Packet16f code runs at 73% of the speed of the existing code,
while the corrected Packed8d function runs at 68% of the original.
