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

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().

Christoph

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