Speedup FP16 Gelu op using fast math and vectorized 8 kernel #38980
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Performance optimization
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Describe
Speed up FP16 op using: (1) vectorized 8 kernel, since GPU has PTX
ld
instruction to load 4x32bit data; (2) use the PTX fast tanhf instructiontanh.approx.fp32
to speed up thetanhf
function. It is enabled whenFLAGS_use_fast_math=1
.