Naive node.js faster than naive LDC2?
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Sat Aug 22 19:20:34 UTC 2020
On 8/22/20 1:40 PM, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 August 2020 at 16:15:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> 3) std.math.fmax calling the C library (involving a PIC indirection to a
>> shared library as opposed to inlineable native D code).
>
> Yes, and that's because there's only a `real` version for fmax.
>
> If
> upstream Phobos had proper double/float overloads, we could uncomment
> the LDC-specific implementations using LLVM intrinsics, which use
> (obviously much faster) SSE instructions:
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/phobos/blob/1366c7d5be65def916f030785fc1f1833342497d/std/math.d#L7785-L7798
>
>
> Number crunching in D could be significantly accelerated if the people
> interested in it showed some love for std.math, but we've had this topic
> for years.
Ow, do we still suffer from that? Sigh.
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/7604/files
It's 10 minutes of work - as much as writing a couple of posts, and much
more satisfactory.
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