Re: Continuations

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:28:43 +0000, Michael S wrote:

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:06:52 -0000 (UTC)
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
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The idea I was thinking about was to pre-calculate R/Ea rather than
Ea/R. And then to find fast algorithm for approximation of exp(-1/x) on
the range of interest.

exp( -x ) = 1/exp( x )
I guess, in the past, when -x was at most 1 cycle, and FDIV was 20
cycles
and exp() was 150 cycles, you did not worry about creating an elementary
function to calculate 1/exp(x). With exp(x) now down in the 16 cycle
range, it might be different as 1/exp(x) would likely also take 16
cycles.
My 66000 exp(x) instruction has sign control on the operands so one can
calculate exp(-x) as:
       EXP    Rd,-Rx           // still 16 cycles
exp(1/x) is pretty much confined to the serial latency of FDIV and EXP.