Parallelize the exhaustive midpoint test across hardware threads (~75x faster)#383
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exhaustive32_midpointsweeps all 2³² float bit-patterns one at a time, which takes~30 min on a fast machine. The values are independent, so this splits the range across
std::thread::hardware_concurrency()threads, with an atomic flag for fail-fast. Theper-value work is factored into a
check_word()helper; the checks and pass/failbehavior are unchanged.
On a 96-core machine the runtime drops from ~1900 s to ~25 s (≈75×), identical result:
Notes:
FASTFLOAT_EXHAUSTIVE(off by default and notbuilt in CI), so this has no CI impact — it's purely a faster local/dev sweep.
tests/CMakeLists.txtnow linksThreads::Threads(withTHREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG).-Werror -Wall -Wextra -Weffc++ -Wconversion -Wsign-conversion -Wshadowset on gcc and clang; clang-format clean.The same pattern applies to the sibling sweeps (
exhaustive32,exhaustive32_64); Ikept this PR to one test for review, happy to extend it if you'd like.