Float Algorithm Performance

Note that these tests are carefully designed to test performance of the underlying algorithms and not memory allocation or variable copying. As usual, performance results should be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism, and real-world performance may vary widely depending upon the specifics of the program. In each table relative times are given first, with the best performer given a score of 1. Total actual times are given in brackets, measured in seconds for 500000 operations.

Table 1.14. Operator +

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.0575156s)	1 (0.0740086s)	1 (0.219073s)
gmp_float	2.45065 (0.14095s)	2.01398 (0.149052s)	1.09608 (0.240122s)
mpfr_float	2.6001 (0.149546s)	2.12079 (0.156957s)	1.09078 (0.23896s)

Table 1.15. Operator +(int)

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cpp_dec_float	1.46115 (0.0855392s)	2.60353 (0.114398s)	3.62562 (0.264905s)
gmp_float	1 (0.0585424s)	1 (0.0439398s)	1 (0.0730648s)
mpfr_float	2.40441 (0.14076s)	3.2877 (0.144461s)	2.40379 (0.175632s)

Table 1.16. Operator +(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.118146s)	1 (0.144714s)	1 (0.315639s)
gmp_float	4.5555 (0.538213s)	3.83096 (0.554395s)	1.95079 (0.615745s)
mpfr_float	5.74477 (0.678719s)	4.85295 (0.702291s)	2.70354 (0.853342s)

Table 1.17. Operator +=(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.101188s)	1 (0.122394s)	1 (0.251975s)
gmp_float	5.199 (0.526079s)	4.39327 (0.537712s)	2.42151 (0.610159s)
mpfr_float	6.08318 (0.615547s)	5.18525 (0.634645s)	3.1022 (0.781677s)

Table 1.18. Operator -

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.0895163s)	1 (0.129248s)	1.5088 (0.374512s)
gmp_float	1.72566 (0.154474s)	1.22567 (0.158415s)	1 (0.248219s)
mpfr_float	1.83764 (0.164499s)	1.34284 (0.173559s)	1.00226 (0.248781s)

Table 1.19. Operator -(int)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.105285s)	1 (0.142741s)	1 (0.278718s)
gmp_float	2.34437 (0.246828s)	1.28814 (0.183871s)	1.00731 (0.280754s)
mpfr_float	2.8032 (0.295136s)	2.09178 (0.298582s)	1.25213 (0.34899s)

Table 1.20. Operator -(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.13719s)	1 (0.184428s)	1 (0.344212s)
gmp_float	4.0804 (0.559791s)	3.06776 (0.565781s)	2.07736 (0.715053s)
mpfr_float	5.10114 (0.699828s)	3.88684 (0.716843s)	2.50074 (0.860784s)

Table 1.21. Operator -=(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.100984s)	1 (0.123148s)	1 (0.246181s)
gmp_float	5.68353 (0.573944s)	4.68636 (0.577116s)	2.6958 (0.663655s)
mpfr_float	6.19738 (0.625834s)	5.18544 (0.638577s)	3.18738 (0.784673s)

Table 1.22. Operator *

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cpp_dec_float	1.03667 (0.284251s)	1.30576 (0.536527s)	1.44686 (4.81057s)
gmp_float	1 (0.274196s)	1 (0.410891s)	1 (3.32484s)
mpfr_float	1.24537 (0.341477s)	1.15785 (0.475749s)	1.1796 (3.92199s)

Table 1.23. Operator *(int)

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cpp_dec_float	3.97453 (0.240262s)	9.91222 (0.463473s)	50.7926 (4.36527s)
gmp_float	1 (0.0604505s)	1 (0.0467577s)	1 (0.0859431s)
mpfr_float	2.56974 (0.155342s)	3.56312 (0.166603s)	3.22964 (0.277565s)

Table 1.24. Operator *(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.331877s)	1.01058 (0.586122s)	6.688 (4.7931s)
gmp_float	1.72433 (0.572266s)	1 (0.579987s)	1 (0.716672s)
mpfr_float	2.5553 (0.848047s)	1.74987 (1.0149s)	1.80403 (1.2929s)

Table 1.25. Operator *=(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.321397s)	1.00772 (0.574887s)	6.65946 (4.7468s)
gmp_float	1.77419 (0.570218s)	1 (0.570482s)	1 (0.712791s)
mpfr_float	2.62172 (0.842611s)	1.77691 (1.01369s)	1.77511 (1.26528s)

Table 1.26. Operator /

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cpp_dec_float	2.96096 (4.00777s)	4.53244 (7.86435s)	6.11936 (51.5509s)
gmp_float	1 (1.35354s)	1 (1.73512s)	1 (8.42422s)
mpfr_float	1.30002 (1.75963s)	1.39045 (2.41261s)	1.66762 (14.0484s)

Table 1.27. Operator /(int)

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cpp_dec_float	8.60726 (1.8181s)	15.4122 (3.67479s)	34.5119 (24.729s)
gmp_float	1.24394 (0.262756s)	1 (0.238433s)	1 (0.716536s)
mpfr_float	1 (0.211229s)	1.12178 (0.26747s)	1.02237 (0.732562s)

Table 1.28. Operator /(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	2.10976 (1.97569s)	3.73601 (3.9133s)	11.3085 (25.4533s)
gmp_float	1 (0.936452s)	1 (1.04746s)	1 (2.25081s)
mpfr_float	1.3423 (1.257s)	1.51575 (1.58768s)	3.31513 (7.46175s)

Table 1.29. Operator /=(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	2.17401 (1.96883s)	3.79591 (3.8965s)	11.2328 (25.2606s)
gmp_float	1 (0.905621s)	1 (1.0265s)	1 (2.24882s)
mpfr_float	1.37953 (1.24933s)	1.53073 (1.57129s)	3.30546 (7.43339s)

Table 1.30. Operator construct

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.00929804s)	1 (0.0268321s)	1 (0.0310685s)
gmp_float	30.8781 (0.287106s)	7.59969 (0.203916s)	6.51873 (0.202527s)
mpfr_float	23.5296 (0.218779s)	8.11058 (0.217624s)	7.16325 (0.222552s)

Table 1.31. Operator construct(unsigned)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.0603971s)	1 (0.0735485s)	1 (0.116464s)
gmp_float	3.91573 (0.236498s)	2.88171 (0.211945s)	1.81075 (0.210887s)
mpfr_float	4.90052 (0.295977s)	4.01118 (0.295017s)	2.62005 (0.305141s)

Table 1.32. Operator construct(unsigned long long)

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cpp_dec_float	1 (0.0610288s)	1 (0.0759005s)	1 (0.118511s)
gmp_float	8.26247 (0.504249s)	6.69042 (0.507806s)	4.32819 (0.51294s)
mpfr_float	10.1593 (0.620013s)	8.45884 (0.64203s)	5.51472 (0.653557s)

Table 1.33. Operator str

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cpp_dec_float	2.95848 (0.0223061s)	3.33461 (0.033471s)	3.0159 (0.132732s)
gmp_float	1 (0.00753971s)	1 (0.0100374s)	1 (0.0440106s)
mpfr_float	1.25424 (0.00945658s)	1.24943 (0.012541s)	1.09428 (0.0481601s)

Test code was compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with all optimisations turned on (/Ox), and used MPIR-2.3.0 and MPFR-3.0.0. The tests were run on 32-bit Windows Vista machine.

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Float Algorithm Performance