Re: When to use std::pow(x,n) instead of times x for n times?
On 2008-09-14 15:47, Peng Yu wrote:
On Sep 14, 4:37 am, Erik Wikstr??m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:
On 2008-09-13 23:06, Peng Yu wrote:
On Sep 11, 4:56 pm, gpderetta <gpdere...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 11, 6:39 pm, Juha Nieminen <nos...@thanks.invalid> wrote:
Today hand optimizations are tomorrow pessimizations. Let the compiler
do its job.
The usual rule apply: usepow, and only if the profiler tells it is a
bottleneck, try to optimize it by hand.
But we don't have to speculate about this as it's trivially easy to
test in practice. Go ahead and try it.
I had already tried. 'pow(x, 16)' is inlined exactly as four
multiplies, at least with a recent gcc.
Would you please let me know the details the procedure on how you
figure this out? Sometimes I want to know what the compiler compile
the code to.
In Visual Studio you can run the program in the debugger and then bring
up the assembly code and it will show you can step through it and switch
back and forth between the code and assembly code. I would imagine you
can do similar things in other IDEs and in gdb.
Shall there be a problem if I use -O3 option? The source code and the
assembly code might have one-one relationship.
There might be a problem if the compiler decides to remove some code
completely, otherwise no.
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