encog/encog-java-core — pull request #124 by mustajarvi (2012-11-08 22:07:11+00:00)
Title: Performance improvements

Made three different optimizations:

1. Micro optimizations of array reference access. Such optimizations should be used sparingly of course, but this loop seemed to be one of those places.

2. I noticed that the number of worker threads were set using the number of processors + 1 rule. In this case I think it's more fitting to set the number of threads to being equal to the number of CPU:s since we can avoid some context switches that way and keep the data in the CPU caches longer.

3. Replaced Math.tanh() with FastMath.tanh() from Apache Commons. This added a new dependency, but since it's quite possible it's useful in other places this shouldn't be so bad.