[libc-commits] [libc] [libc][math] Implement atan2f correctly rounded to all rounding modes. (PR #86716)

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zimmermann6 wrote:

on the performance side, on a Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4214, I get:
```
zimmerma at croissant:~/svn/core-math$ LIBM=$L CORE_MATH_PERF_MODE=rdtsc ./perf.sh atan2f
GNU libc version: 2.37
GNU libc release: stable
[####################] 100 %
Ntrial = 20 ; Min = 21.403 + 0.730 clc/call; Median-Min = 0.526 clc/call; Max = 23.978 clc/call;
[####################] 100 %
Ntrial = 20 ; Min = 72.942 + 1.122 clc/call; Median-Min = 1.153 clc/call; Max = 75.873 clc/call;
[####################] 100 %
Ntrial = 20 ; Min = 25.242 + 0.662 clc/call; Median-Min = 0.613 clc/call; Max = 26.245 clc/call;
zimmerma at croissant:~/svn/core-math$ PERF_ARGS=--latency LIBM=$L CORE_MATH_PERF_MODE=rdtsc ./perf.sh atan2f
GNU libc version: 2.37
GNU libc release: stable
[####################] 100 %
Ntrial = 20 ; Min = 59.164 + 1.289 clc/call; Median-Min = 1.221 clc/call; Max = 61.282 clc/call;
[####################] 100 %
Ntrial = 20 ; Min = 99.246 + 2.177 clc/call; Median-Min = 2.411 clc/call; Max = 103.292 clc/call;
[####################] 100 %
Ntrial = 20 ; Min = 63.599 + 0.823 clc/call; Median-Min = 0.804 clc/call; Max = 65.413 clc/call;
```
which means a reciprocal throughput of 25.2 for LLVM (against 21.4 for CORE-MATH and 72.9 for the GNU libc), and a latency of 63.6 (against 59.2 and 99.2)

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/86716