Performance minutiae #94
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From the original paper:
The compactness of the recommended solutions is due to the use of nested
equations to compute elliptic terms and of only three trigonometric functions:
sine, cosine, and arc tangent. Nesting reduces the number of operations involving
storage and retrieval of intermediate results (particularly when programming)
in assembly language), reduces the length of the program and the time of execution,
and minimizes the possibility of underflow.
TODO: benchmarking and performance analysis to validate that this change
is appropriately taken advantage of by modern engines such as V8 and
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From the original paper:
I'm marking this PR as a draft, pending benchmarking verification that these changes are actually relevant given the introspective ability of today's compilers, but I strongly suspect it's at least probable that it will make a difference and take full advantage of the design that these equations have had since the start.