Pow

Function Pow

The Pow function computes a power b.

Performance:

	Default processor	Intel® Pentium® III processor	Intel® Pentium® 4 processor	Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3)	Intel® Itanium® 2 processor
vsPow (HA version)	300.66	302.02	40.81	47.92	11.29
vdPow (HA version)	144.83	144.89	82.08	103.75	21.40

Notes:
1) Units - CPE (Clocks per Element)
2) Performance was measured on "working" interval (double precision: [-1,1]; single precision: [-1,1] )
3) Data - vectors of 1000 elements with random generated numbers
4) "Default" means X87 code for all IA-32 processors
5) Performance of "default" version was measured on Pentium® III processor

Notes:
1) *           X87 code for all processors
2) **         Intel® Pentium® III processor
3) ***       Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
4) ****     Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3)
5) ***** Intel® Itanium® 2 processor
6) Logarithmic scale is used for "Vectors Size" axis

Maximal observed error for the whole function domain:

	Default processor	Pentium III processor	Pentium 4 processor	Pentium 4 processor with SSE3	Itanium 2 processor
vsPow (HA version)	0.5000	0.5000	0.5576	0.5576	0.5084
vdPow (HA version)	0.5270	0.5910	0.5200	0.5200	0.5002

Notes:
1) Units - ULP (Units in The Last Place)

Special values:

Function	Input Argument	Result	Default processor	Pentium III processor	Pentium 4 processor	Pentium 4 processor with SSE3	Itanium 2 processor
vsPow/vdPow (HA version)	Any x (even NaN) and y=0	1	+	+	+	+	+
	Any NaN (Both QNaN and SNaN)	NaN (Raise Invalid Exeption for SNaN)	+	+	+	+	+
	\|x\|>1, y=Inf	Inf	+	+	+	+	+
	\|x\|<1, y=Inf	0	+	+	+	+	+
	\|x\|>1, y=-Inf	0	+	+	+	+	+
	\|x\|<1, y=-Inf	Inf	+	+	+	+	+
	x=Inf, y>0	Inf	+	+	+	+	+
	x=Inf, y<0	0	+	+	+	+	+
	x=-Inf, y odd pos. int	- Inf	+	+	+	+	+
	x=-Inf, y not odd and pos. int	+ Inf	+	+	+	+	+
	x=-Inf, y odd neg. int	0	+	+	+	+	+
	x=-Inf, y not odd and neg. int	0	+	+	+	+	+
	x=-1, y=(+/-)Inf	1	+	+	+	+	+
	x=+1, y - any, even a NaN	1	+	+	+	+	+
	x<0 and y finite non-int	NaN (Raise Invalid Exeption)	+	+	+	+	+
	x=(+/-)0, y odd neg. int	(+/-)Inf (Raise DZ Exeption)	+	+	+	+	+

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