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authorvlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2016-01-15 16:30:07 +0000
committervlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2016-01-15 16:30:07 +0000
commitb12a5184c074f0756527379522df35e5357ae68c (patch)
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parent63a259b9bf33378c006631f2420fa377b87dcdec (diff)
downloadmpfr-b12a5184c074f0756527379522df35e5357ae68c.tar.gz
[src/log_ui.c] Added a FIXME comment: mpfr_log_ui is much slower than
mpfr_log on some values of n, e.g. around ULONG_MAX/3. git-svn-id: svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/trunk@9819 280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4
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diff --git a/src/log_ui.c b/src/log_ui.c
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@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
#define MPFR_NEED_LONGLONG_H
#include "mpfr-impl.h"
+/* FIXME: mpfr_log_ui is much slower than mpfr_log on some values of n,
+ e.g. something like 8 times as slow for n around ULONG_MAX/3 on an
+ x86_64 Linux machine. */
+
/* Auxiliary function: Compute using binary splitting the sum
-sum((-x)^(n+1-n1)/n, n = n1..n2-1) where x = p/2^k,
-1/3 <= x <= 1/3. For n1=1 we get -sum((-x)^n/n, n = 1..n2-1).