Exp

Function Exp

The Exp function computes an exponential.

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
vsExp (HA version)	23.57	19.73	11.16	11.82	6.19
vdExp (HA version)	37.82	38.34	26.12	28.50	6.50

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 Intel® 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
vsExp (HA version)	0.6103	0.6103	1.0000	1.0000	1.0000
vdExp (HA version)	0.7872	0.7872	0.7418	0.7418	0.5216

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
vsExp/vdExp (HA version)	0	1	+	+	+	+	+
	NaN (Both QNaN and SNaN)	NaN (Raise Invalid Exeption for SNaN)	+	+	+	+	+
	x> Precision`s Overflow Threshold	Inf (Raise Overflow Exeption)	+	+	+	+	+

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