ln(1 + x)

Percentage Accurate: 39.0% → 100.0%
Time: 9.2s
Alternatives: 6
Speedup: 8.7×

Specification

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\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(1 + x\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (log (+ 1.0 x)))
double code(double x) {
	return log((1.0 + x));
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = log((1.0d0 + x))
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	return Math.log((1.0 + x));
}
def code(x):
	return math.log((1.0 + x))
function code(x)
	return log(Float64(1.0 + x))
end
function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = log((1.0 + x));
end
code[x_] := N[Log[N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\log \left(1 + x\right)
\end{array}

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

The average percentage accuracy by input value. Horizontal axis shows value of an input variable; the variable is choosen in the title. Vertical axis is accuracy; higher is better. Red represent the original program, while blue represents Herbie's suggestion. These can be toggled with buttons below the plot. The line is an average while dots represent individual samples.

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 6 alternatives:

AlternativeAccuracySpeedup
The accuracy (vertical axis) and speed (horizontal axis) of each alternatives. Up and to the right is better. The red square shows the initial program, and each blue circle shows an alternative.The line shows the best available speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

Initial Program: 39.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(1 + x\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (log (+ 1.0 x)))
double code(double x) {
	return log((1.0 + x));
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = log((1.0d0 + x))
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	return Math.log((1.0 + x));
}
def code(x):
	return math.log((1.0 + x))
function code(x)
	return log(Float64(1.0 + x))
end
function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = log((1.0 + x));
end
code[x_] := N[Log[N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\log \left(1 + x\right)
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{log1p}\left(x\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (log1p x))
double code(double x) {
	return log1p(x);
}
public static double code(double x) {
	return Math.log1p(x);
}
def code(x):
	return math.log1p(x)
function code(x)
	return log1p(x)
end
code[x_] := N[Log[1 + x], $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\mathsf{log1p}\left(x\right)
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 36.1%

    \[\log \left(1 + x\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-log.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + x\right)} \]
    2. lift-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(1 + x\right)} \]
    3. lower-log1p.f64100.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(x\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites100.0%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(x\right)} \]
  5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 68.0% accurate, 3.6× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{x \cdot -0.25}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5\right)}, x, x\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (fma (/ (* x -0.25) (fma x 0.3333333333333333 0.5)) x x))
double code(double x) {
	return fma(((x * -0.25) / fma(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5)), x, x);
}
function code(x)
	return fma(Float64(Float64(x * -0.25) / fma(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5)), x, x)
end
code[x_] := N[(N[(N[(x * -0.25), $MachinePrecision] / N[(x * 0.3333333333333333 + 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * x + x), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{x \cdot -0.25}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5\right)}, x, x\right)
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 39.0%

    \[\log \left(1 + x\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}\right)\right)} \]
  4. Step-by-step derivation
    1. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}\right)\right) \cdot x} \]
    2. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}\right) + 1\right)} \cdot x \]
    3. distribute-lft1-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}\right)\right) \cdot x + x} \]
    4. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}\right) \cdot x\right)} \cdot x + x \]
    5. associate-*l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)} + x \]
    6. unpow2N/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}\right) \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{2}} + x \]
    7. lower-fma.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot x - \frac{1}{2}, {x}^{2}, x\right)} \]
    8. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{3} \cdot x + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)\right)}, {x}^{2}, x\right) \]
    9. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{x \cdot \frac{1}{3}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)\right), {x}^{2}, x\right) \]
    10. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot \frac{1}{3} + \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2}}, {x}^{2}, x\right) \]
    11. lower-fma.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, \frac{1}{3}, \frac{-1}{2}\right)}, {x}^{2}, x\right) \]
    12. unpow2N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(x, \frac{1}{3}, \frac{-1}{2}\right), \color{blue}{x \cdot x}, x\right) \]
    13. lower-*.f6467.4

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, -0.5\right), \color{blue}{x \cdot x}, x\right) \]
  5. Applied rewrites67.4%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, -0.5\right), x \cdot x, x\right)} \]
  6. Step-by-step derivation
    1. Applied rewrites67.4%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot x, 0.1111111111111111, -0.25\right)}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5\right)}, \color{blue}{x} \cdot x, x\right) \]
    2. Taylor expanded in x around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-1}{4}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, \frac{1}{3}, \frac{1}{2}\right)}, x \cdot x, x\right) \]
    3. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites67.5%

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.25}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5\right)}, x \cdot x, x\right) \]
      2. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites68.0%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.25 \cdot x}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5\right)}, \color{blue}{x}, x\right) \]
        2. Final simplification68.0%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{x \cdot -0.25}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 0.3333333333333333, 0.5\right)}, x, x\right) \]
        3. Add Preprocessing

        Developer Target 1: 99.6% accurate, 0.8× speedup?

        \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;1 + x = 1:\\ \;\;\;\;x\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{x \cdot \log \left(1 + x\right)}{\left(1 + x\right) - 1}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
        (FPCore (x)
         :precision binary64
         (if (== (+ 1.0 x) 1.0) x (/ (* x (log (+ 1.0 x))) (- (+ 1.0 x) 1.0))))
        double code(double x) {
        	double tmp;
        	if ((1.0 + x) == 1.0) {
        		tmp = x;
        	} else {
        		tmp = (x * log((1.0 + x))) / ((1.0 + x) - 1.0);
        	}
        	return tmp;
        }
        
        real(8) function code(x)
            real(8), intent (in) :: x
            real(8) :: tmp
            if ((1.0d0 + x) == 1.0d0) then
                tmp = x
            else
                tmp = (x * log((1.0d0 + x))) / ((1.0d0 + x) - 1.0d0)
            end if
            code = tmp
        end function
        
        public static double code(double x) {
        	double tmp;
        	if ((1.0 + x) == 1.0) {
        		tmp = x;
        	} else {
        		tmp = (x * Math.log((1.0 + x))) / ((1.0 + x) - 1.0);
        	}
        	return tmp;
        }
        
        def code(x):
        	tmp = 0
        	if (1.0 + x) == 1.0:
        		tmp = x
        	else:
        		tmp = (x * math.log((1.0 + x))) / ((1.0 + x) - 1.0)
        	return tmp
        
        function code(x)
        	tmp = 0.0
        	if (Float64(1.0 + x) == 1.0)
        		tmp = x;
        	else
        		tmp = Float64(Float64(x * log(Float64(1.0 + x))) / Float64(Float64(1.0 + x) - 1.0));
        	end
        	return tmp
        end
        
        function tmp_2 = code(x)
        	tmp = 0.0;
        	if ((1.0 + x) == 1.0)
        		tmp = x;
        	else
        		tmp = (x * log((1.0 + x))) / ((1.0 + x) - 1.0);
        	end
        	tmp_2 = tmp;
        end
        
        code[x_] := If[Equal[N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision], 1.0], x, N[(N[(x * N[Log[N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]
        
        \begin{array}{l}
        
        \\
        \begin{array}{l}
        \mathbf{if}\;1 + x = 1:\\
        \;\;\;\;x\\
        
        \mathbf{else}:\\
        \;\;\;\;\frac{x \cdot \log \left(1 + x\right)}{\left(1 + x\right) - 1}\\
        
        
        \end{array}
        \end{array}
        

        Reproduce

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        herbie shell --seed 2024225 
        (FPCore (x)
          :name "ln(1 + x)"
          :precision binary64
        
          :alt
          (! :herbie-platform default (if (== (+ 1 x) 1) x (/ (* x (log (+ 1 x))) (- (+ 1 x) 1))))
        
          (log (+ 1.0 x)))