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bde
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V 27
2008-02-07T03:17:05.000000Z
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V 1093
Use a better method of scaling by 2**k.  Instead of adding to the
exponent bits of the reduced result, construct 2**k (hopefully in
parallel with the construction of the reduced result) and multiply by
it.  This tends to be much faster if the construction of 2**k is
actually in parallel, and might be faster even with no parallelism
since adjustment of the exponent requires a read-modify-wrtite at an
unfortunate time for pipelines.

In some cases involving exp2* on amd64 (A64), this change saves about
40 cycles or 30%.  I think it is inherently only about 12 cycles faster
in these cases and the rest of the speedup is from partly-accidentally
avoiding compiler pessimizations (the construction of 2**k is now
manually scheduled for good results, and -O2 doesn't always mess this
up).  In most cases on amd64 (A64) and i386 (A64) the speedup is about
20 cycles.  The worst case that I found is expf on ia64 where this
change is a pessimization of about 10 cycles or 5%.  The manual
scheduling for plain exp[f] is harder and not as tuned.

This change ld128/s_exp2l.c has not been tested.

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