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Optimizing Applications with Fixed-Point Arithmetic
Tuesday, 01 April 2008
My latest article, Optimizing Math-intensive Applications with Fixed Point Arithmetic from the April 2008 issue of Dr Dobb's Journal is now available online. (I originally had "Maths-intensive" in the title, being English, but they dropped the "s", being American).
In the article, I describe the fixed-point techniques I used to vastly improve the performance of an application using sines, cosines and exponentials without hardware floating point support.
The source code referenced in the article can be downloaded from here. It is released under the Boost Software License.
Posted by Anthony Williams
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Tags: optimization, fixed-point, maths
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Hi, I know it's quite late (3 years and half late) but I've found your fixed point class through some answer in stackoverflow.com, and it says that there's a bug in the log function. I've checked, and indeed, it doesn't calculate the log around 1 ok. It also says, in this link (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7062046/how-do-i-calculate-distance-between-gps-co-ordinates-on-a-processor-with-poor-flo/7126717#7126717), that it can be solved by adding a zero value to one of the lookup tables. So I've added it to the "log_two_power_n_reversed" table, and now it seems to work well (for values around 1). So, my questions are: is it enough with this change to solve this issue? Are there any other known issues? Thanks for the code!!