Java sin and cos might not be using the machine hardware.<p>Plain vanilla use of Math.sin and Math.cos = 9.15s
Constrain to the range +45 to -45 degrees = 4.88s<p>As demonstrated 20 months ago  <a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/program.php?test=partialsums&#38;lang=java&#38;id=4" rel="nofollow">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/program.php?test=parti...</a>