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The goal is to reduce the affect of the fmod() used in the noise code,
which was initially reported in the comment:
https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119884#issuecomment-1258902
Basic idea is to benefit from SIMD vectorization on CPU.
Tested on Linux i9-11900K and macOS on M2 Ultra, in both cases performance
after this change is very close to what it could be with the fmod() commented
out (the call itself, `p = p + precision_correction`).
On macOS the penalty of fmod() was about 10%, on Linux it was closer to 30%
when built with GCC-13. With Linux builds from the buildbot it is more like 18%.
The optimization is only done for 3d and 4d noise. It might be possible to
gain some performance improvement for 1d and 2d cases, but the approach would
need to be different: we'd need to optimize scalar version fmodf(). Maybe
tricks with integer cast will be faster (since we are a bit optimistic in the
kernel and do not guarantee exact behavior in extreme cases such as NaN inputs).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137109
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