1. Speed up exp(x) by reducing the polynomial approximant from degree 7 to
degree 6. With exactly representable coefficients computed by the Sollya tool,
this still gives a maximum relative error of 1 ulp, i.e. faithfully rounded, for
arguments where exp(x) is a normalized float. This change results in a speedup
of about 4% for AVX2.
2. Extend the range where exp(x) returns a non-zero result to from ~[-88;88] to
~[-104;88] i.e. return denormalized values for large negative arguments instead
of zero. Compared to exp<double>(x) the denormalized results gradually decrease
in accuracy down to 0.033 relative error for arguments around x = -104 where
exp(x) is ~std::numeric<float>::denorm_min(). This is expected and acceptable.
We can't make guarantees on alignment for existing calls to `pset`,
so we should default to loading unaligned. But in that case, we should
just use `ploadu` directly. For loading constants, this load should hopefully
get optimized away.
This is causing segfaults in Google Maps.
Replace usage of `std::numeric_limits<...>::min/max_exponent` in
codebase where possible. Also replaced some other `numeric_limits`
usages in affected tests with the `NumTraits` equivalent.
The previous MR !443 failed for c++03 due to lack of `constexpr`.
Because of this, we need to keep around the `std::numeric_limits`
version in enum expressions until the switch to c++11.
Fixes#2148
Replace usage of `std::numeric_limits<...>::min/max_exponent` in
codebase. Also replaced some other `numeric_limits` usages in
affected tests with the `NumTraits` equivalent.
Fixes#2148
This is a new version of !423, which failed for MSVC.
Defined `EIGEN_OPTIMIZATION_BARRIER(X)` that uses inline assembly to
prevent operations involving `X` from crossing that barrier. Should
work on most `GNUC` compatible compilers (MSVC doesn't seem to need
this). This is a modified version adapted from what was used in
`psincos_float` and tested on more platforms
(see #1674, https://godbolt.org/z/73ezTG).
Modified `rint` to use the barrier to prevent the add/subtract rounding
trick from being optimized away.
Also fixed an edge case for large inputs that get bumped up a power of two
and ends up rounding away more than just the fractional part. If we are
over `2^digits` then just return the input. This edge case was missed in
the test since the test was comparing approximate equality, which was still
satisfied. Adding a strict equality option catches it.
The original clamping bounds on `_x` actually produce finite values:
```
exp(88.3762626647950) = 2.40614e+38 < 3.40282e+38
exp(709.437) = 1.27226e+308 < 1.79769e+308
```
so with an accurate `ldexp` implementation, `pexp` fails for large
inputs, producing finite values instead of `inf`.
This adjusts the bounds slightly outside the finite range so that
the output will overflow to +/- `inf` as expected.
The previous implementations produced garbage values if the exponent did
not fit within the exponent bits. See #2131 for a complete discussion,
and !375 for other possible implementations.
Here we implement the 4-factor version. See `pldexp_impl` in
`GenericPacketMathFunctions.h` for a full description.
The SSE `pcmp*` methods were moved down since `pcmp_le<Packet4i>`
requires `por`.
Left as a "TODO" is to delegate to a faster version if we know the
exponent does fit within the exponent bits.
Fixes#2131.
The new `generic_pow` implementation was failing for half/bfloat16 since
their construction from int/float is not `constexpr`. Modified
in `GenericPacketMathFunctions` to remove `constexpr`.
While adding tests for half/bfloat16, found other issues related to
implicit conversions.
Also needed to implement `numext::arg` for non-integer, non-complex,
non-float/double/long double types. These seem to be implicitly
converted to `std::complex<T>`, which then fails for half/bfloat16.
The recent addition of vectorized pow (!330) relies on `pfrexp` and
`pldexp`. This was missing for `Eigen::half` and `Eigen::bfloat16`.
Adding tests for these packet ops also exposed an issue with handling
negative values in `pfrexp`, returning an incorrect exponent.
Added the missing implementations, corrected the exponent in `pfrexp1`,
and added `packetmath` tests.
I ran some testing (comparing to `std::pow(double(x), double(y)))` for `x` in the set of all (positive) floats in the interval `[std::sqrt(std::numeric_limits<float>::min()), std::sqrt(std::numeric_limits<float>::max())]`, and `y` in `{2, sqrt(2), -sqrt(2)}` I get the following error statistics:
```
max_rel_error = 8.34405e-07
rms_rel_error = 2.76654e-07
```
If I widen the range to all normal float I see lower accuracy for arguments where the result is subnormal, e.g. for `y = sqrt(2)`:
```
max_rel_error = 0.666667
rms = 6.8727e-05
count = 1335165689
argmax = 2.56049e-32, 2.10195e-45 != 1.4013e-45
```
which seems reasonable, since these results are subnormals with only couple of significant bits left.
This is to support scalar `sqrt` of complex numbers `std::complex<T>` on
device, requested by Tensorflow folks.
Technically `std::complex` is not supported by NVCC on device
(though it is by clang), so the default `sqrt(std::complex<T>)` function only
works on the host. Here we create an overload to add back the
functionality.
Also modified the CMake file to add `--relaxed-constexpr` (or
equivalent) flag for NVCC to allow calling constexpr functions from
device functions, and added support for specifying compute architecture for
NVCC (was already available for clang).
For these to exist we would need to define `_USE_MATH_DEFINES` before
`cmath` or `math.h` is first included. However, we don't
control the include order for projects outside Eigen, so even defining
the macro in `Eigen/Core` does not fix the issue for projects that
end up including `<cmath>` before Eigen does (explicitly or transitively).
To fix this, we define `EIGEN_LOG2E` and `EIGEN_LN2` ourselves.
Adding the term e*ln(2) is split into two step for no obvious reason.
This dates back to the original Cephes code from which the algorithm is adapted.
It appears that this was done in Cephes to prevent the compiler from reordering
the addition of the 3 terms in the approximation
log(1+x) ~= x - 0.5*x^2 + x^3*P(x)/Q(x)
which must be added in reverse order since |x| < (sqrt(2)-1).
This allows rewriting the code to just 2 pmadd and 1 padd instructions,
which on a Skylake processor speeds up the code by 5-7%.
The `half_float` test was failing with `-mcpu=cortex-a55` (native `__fp16`) due
to a bad NaN bit-pattern comparison (in the case of casting a float to `__fp16`,
the signaling `NaN` is quieted). There was also an inconsistency between
`numeric_limits<half>::quiet_NaN()` and `NumTraits::quiet_NaN()`. Here we
correct the inconsistency and compare NaNs according to the IEEE 754
definition.
Also modified the `bfloat16_float` test to match.
Tested with `cortex-a53` and `cortex-a55`.
