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Fixed-Accuracy Arithmetic Functions

constantine-vassilev
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From the Fixed-Accuracy Arithmetic Functions listed in Vol 1/Signal Processing/Chapter 12 I do not see multiplication, addition and subtraction - do I miss something?

Also I suppose Ipp32f notation which generally means floating point, to be interpred as fixed point in the context of Fixed-Accuracy Arithmetic Functions. Am I correct?

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gol
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those operations are so basic that it would surely be less efficient to achieve less accuracy, there would be no point

gol
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Also, no it's not fixed point, but floating point. Those functions are functions that eat a lot of CPU but can be approximated with less accuracy for less CPU, that's why they are there. Even though there are native instructions to divide, it's still a very slow process, whilethe CPU can do several multiplications per cycle, hence nothing to speed up here.

constantine-vassilev
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Quoting - gol

Also, no it's not fixed point, but floating point. Those functions are functions that eat a lot of CPU but can be approximated with less accuracy for less CPU, that's why they are there. Even though there are native instructions to divide, it's still a very slow process, whilethe CPU can do several multiplications per cycle, hence nothing to speed up here.


looking at their header files I see all oprations, obviously documentation is not full.

Vladimir_Dudnik
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Hello,

all IPP fnctions should be listed in documentation. Could you please point to which function you did not find reference in IPP manual?

Regards,
Vladimir

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