Re: [eigen] How to raise double to array powers in Eigen

[Chen-Pang He <jdh8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you need no optimization and want functional programming,
ArrayBase::unaryExpr with a homemade functor is enough.

If you need optimization, because all exponents are integers,
binary powering (aka exponentiation by squaring) is *the*
algorithm.   We can reuse `pow(delta, (1 << k))`.

Cheers,
Chen-Pang

在 2014 八月 18 週一 13:42:46，Ian Bell 寫道:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Christoph Hertzberg <
> chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 18.08.2014 00:23, Ian Bell wrote:
> >
> >> cross-posted to stack overflow...
> >>
> >
> > If you cross-post, could you post a link as well?
> 
> Here's the link:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25354205/how-to-raise-double-to-array-powers-in-eigen
> 
> >
> >
> >  I need to raise a double value to an array of integer powers, in c++ this
> >> would look something like
> >>
> >
> > Could you be a bit more specific about the "array of integer powers" (I
> > guess 'exponents')?
> > If they are a sequence 0,1,2,3,... your proposed solution is definitely
> > very inefficient. If they are of great range, with no apparent pattern, I
> > would say the exp(log(delta)*exponent) approach is basically the most
> > efficient solution (maybe using log2 and exp2 would be more efficient, if
> > they were available).
> >
> 
> The exponents are typically in the range [0, 10), and can be sorted if that
> is of use.  They are not necessarily linearly increasing, we might have
> exponents 0,0,0,1,1,1,1,2,2 for instance.  Obviously it would be better to
> short-circuit the 0 powers as well since they yield 1 again (x^0=1)..  This
> method with the exp(log(delta)*exponent) also doesn't allow you to skip
> those powers.  I think that the >0 comparison should be cheaper than doing
> pow(x, 0) when 0 is integer.  Especially this will be true when using exp().
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