[PATCH] D19426: [AArch64] Use the reciprocal estimation machinery

Evandro Menezes via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed May 4 11:45:26 PDT 2016


evandro added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D19426#421169, @jmolloy wrote:

> How does X86 do this?


It doesn't.  AFAIK, ARM is the only target that has an instruction for the series steps.  All the other targets that can estimate the initial value, X86, PPC, IA64, MIPS, compute the series steps with polynomials.


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