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Gilles commented on MATH-579:
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In answer to your question, Gilles, there are some applications where 100ms is
a big deal and if they just make one or two calls [...]
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This does not answer my question, which could be restated as: How can 100 ms
matter when the JVM can take several seconds to start up?
I'm curious of what real applications (that use CM) would run for less than a
few seconds...
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If we get a lot of feedback from users indicating that this latency is a
material practical problem for them, or prevents them using the library, we may
want to consider making the embedded use configurable.
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I surely hope that micro-benchmarks are not going to be taken into
consideration...
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I am thankful to Arne for having pointed it out [...]
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At the time "FastMath" was introduced, I had already pointed out the relative
slowness of some functions, to which it had been answered that the "fast" in
"FastMath" would kick in only when doing several millions calls (i.e. after the
JIT compiler would compile the methods to native code).
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I am thankful to [...] Luc for improving the documentation.
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+1
> FastMath.pow much slower than Math.pow
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>
> Key: MATH-579
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-579
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.0
> Environment: java version "1.6.0_22"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.1) (6b22-1.10.1-0ubuntu1)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)
> java version "1.6.0_24"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_24-b07)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.1-b02, mixed mode)
> Reporter: Arne Plöse
> Fix For: 3.0
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> calculating FastMath.pow(10, 0.1 / 20) is approximately 65 times slower as
> the Math.pow() function.
> Ether this is a bug or a javadoc comment is missing.
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