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authorAbseil Team <absl-team@google.com>2019-10-24T02·35-0700
committerDerek Mauro <dmauro@google.com>2019-10-24T14·29-0400
commit078b89b3c046d230ef3ad39494e5852184eb528b (patch)
tree90368e0b398c3e43196c823504b88ab78a8408b3 /absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h
parent19b021cb3ff23048dfbe236a4e611925d8930831 (diff)
Export of internal Abseil changes
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e54b9c7bbb0c58475676c268e2e19c69f4bce48a by Jorg Brown <jorg@google.com>:

Tweak ABSL_PREDICT_TRUE slightly, for better code on some platforms and/or
optimization levels.  "false || (x)" is more verbose than "!!(x)", but
ultimately more efficient.

For example, given this code:

void InitIfNecessary() {
  if (ABSL_PREDICT_TRUE(NeedsInit())) {
    SlowInitIfNecessary();
  }
}

Clang with default optimization level will produce:

Before this CL              After this CL
InitIfNecessary:            InitIfNecessary:
  push rbp                    push rbp
  mov  rbp, rsp               mov  rbp, rsp
  call NeedsInit              call NeedsInit
  xor  al, -1
  xor  al, -1
  test al, 1                  test al, 1
  jne  .LBB2_1                jne  .LBB3_1
  jmp  .LBB2_2                jmp  .LBB3_2
.LBB2_1:                    .LBB3_1:
  call SlowInitIfNecessary    call SlowInitIfNecessary
.LBB2_2:                    .LBB3_2:
  pop  rbp                    pop  rbp
  ret                         ret
PiperOrigin-RevId: 276401386

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0a3c4dfd8342bf2b1b11a87f1c662c883f73cab7 by Abseil Team <absl-team@google.com>:

Fix comment nit: sem_open => sem_init.

The code calls sem_init, not sem_open, to initialize an unnamed semaphore.
(sem_open creates or opens a named semaphore.)

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276344072

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b36a664e9459057509a90e83d3482e1d3a4c44c7 by Abseil Team <absl-team@google.com>:

Fix typo in flat_hash_map.h: exchaged -> exchanged

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276295792

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7bbd8d18276eb110c8335743e35fceb662ddf3d6 by Samuel Benzaquen <sbenza@google.com>:

Add assertions to verify use of iterators.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276283300

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677398a8ffcb1f59182cffe57a4fe7ff147a0404 by Laramie Leavitt <lar@google.com>:

Migrate distribution_impl.h/cc to generate_real.h/cc.

Combine the methods RandU64To<Float,Double> into a single method:
GenerateRealFromBits().

Remove rejection sampling from absl::uniform_real_distribution.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276158675

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c60c9d11d24b0c546329d998e78e15a84b3153f5 by Abseil Team <absl-team@google.com>:

Internal change

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276126962

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4c840cab6a8d86efa29b397cafaf7520eece68cc by Andy Soffer <asoffer@google.com>:

Update CMakeLists.txt to address https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/issues/365.
This does not cover every platform, but it does at least address the
first-order issue of assuming gcc implies x86.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276116253

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98da366e6b5d51afe5d7ac6722126aca23d85ee6 by Abseil Team <absl-team@google.com>:

Internal change

PiperOrigin-RevId: 276097452
GitOrigin-RevId: e54b9c7bbb0c58475676c268e2e19c69f4bce48a
Change-Id: I02d84454bb71ab21ad3d39650acf6cc6e36f58d7
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+// Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
+#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+namespace absl {
+namespace base_internal {
+
+// ExponentialBiased provides a small and fast random number generator for a
+// rounded exponential distribution. This generator doesn't requires very little
+// state doesn't impose synchronization overhead, which makes it useful in some
+// specialized scenarios.
+//
+// For the generated variable X, X ~ floor(Exponential(1/mean)). The floor
+// operation introduces a small amount of bias, but the distribution is useful
+// to generate a wait time. That is, if an operation is supposed to happen on
+// average to 1/mean events, then the generated variable X will describe how
+// many events to skip before performing the operation and computing a new X.
+//
+// The mathematically precise distribution to use for integer wait times is a
+// Geometric distribution, but a Geometric distribution takes slightly more time
+// to compute and when the mean is large (say, 100+), the Geometric distribution
+// is hard to distinguish from the result of ExponentialBiased.
+//
+// This class is thread-compatible.
+class ExponentialBiased {
+ public:
+  // The number of bits set by NextRandom.
+  static constexpr int kPrngNumBits = 48;
+
+  // Generates the floor of an exponentially distributed random variable by
+  // rounding the value down to the nearest integer. The result will be in the
+  // range [0, int64_t max / 2].
+  int64_t Get(int64_t mean);
+
+  // Computes a random number in the range [0, 1<<(kPrngNumBits+1) - 1]
+  //
+  // This is public to enable testing.
+  static uint64_t NextRandom(uint64_t rnd);
+
+ private:
+  void Initialize();
+
+  uint64_t rng_{0};
+  bool initialized_{false};
+};
+
+// Returns the next prng value.
+// pRNG is: aX+b mod c with a = 0x5DEECE66D, b =  0xB, c = 1<<48
+// This is the lrand64 generator.
+inline uint64_t ExponentialBiased::NextRandom(uint64_t rnd) {
+  const uint64_t prng_mult = uint64_t{0x5DEECE66D};
+  const uint64_t prng_add = 0xB;
+  const uint64_t prng_mod_power = 48;
+  const uint64_t prng_mod_mask =
+      ~((~static_cast<uint64_t>(0)) << prng_mod_power);
+  return (prng_mult * rnd + prng_add) & prng_mod_mask;
+}
+
+}  // namespace base_internal
+}  // namespace absl
+
+#endif  // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_