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		pjscott on May 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics From the first sentence: > Performance profiling of some of the eBay code base showed the logarithm (log) function to be consuming more CPU than expected. There are a lot of different types of "very fast", and these guys needed a faster one.

TheLoneWolfling on May 9, 2015 [–]

I wonder why eBay is using the log function?

pmiller2 on May 9, 2015 | | [–]

I'm more curious why they use it so extensively that tripling the speed of it is significant to them.

TheLoneWolfling on May 9, 2015 | | | [–]

That's a much better way to phrase that, thanks.

smitherfield on May 10, 2015 | | [–]

Probably has to do with the weighting of search results, reviews, etc.

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