Fast sine and cosine function in java

Question

I know about the Math.sin() and Math.cos() functions, but I'm wondering if there's a way I can create (or use an already-existing) a faster function, given that I don't care about pinpoint accuracy. I'm looking to execute a basic sin or cos calculation, and have it perform essentially as fast as possible. Would simply iterating the sigma a few times be any faster than Math.sin()?

Answer 1

Since you don't care much about accuracy store it in a table that is precomputed or only computed once, this is what I do when I want to avoid calls to Math which can be expensive when done alot.

Roughly

public class CosSineTable {
double[] cos = new double[361];
double[] sin = new double[361];
private static CosSineTable table = new CosSineTable();

private CosSineTable() {
    for (int i = 0; i <= 360; i++) {
        cos[i] = Math.cos(Math.toRadians(i));
        sin[i] = Math.sin(Math.toRadians(i));
    }
}

public double getSine(int angle) {
    int angleCircle = angle % 360;
    return sin[angleCircle];
}

public double getCos(int angle) {
    int angleCircle = angle % 360;
    return cos[angleCircle];
}

public static CosSineTable getTable() {
    return table;
}
}

I leave the optimization of the loop and methods to you.