sincos()

If you are computing both the sine and cosine of an angle, then you will be twice as quick if you call sincos() than if you call cos() and sin() independently:

#include 

int main()
{
  double a,b,c;
  a=1.0;
  for (int i=0;i<100000000;i++) { b=sin(a); c=cos(a); }
}

$ cc -O sc.c -lm
$ timex ./a.out
real          19.13

vs

#include 

int main()
{
  double a,b,c;
  a=1.0;
  for (int i=0;i<100000000;i++) { sincos(a,&b,&c); }
}
$ cc -O sc.c -lm
$ timex ./a.out
real           9.80