ITS: use faster atan2 for trackleting #14557
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Instead of using the full atan2 which is rather expensive one can use a faster approximate method.
The speedup on cpu is around 10% for the trackleting phases (on cpu this is 5% of the total time with 20 threads, so a gain of around 0.5%)
On gpu the speedup is much less 0.5% (prob. within fluctuations, on gpu this phase is around 26% of the total time with <<<30,256>>>, so only 0.13% faster).
The difference in output is minimal (below per-mille). Below is the comparison. The plot in the bottom right shows that after switching with deterministic mode the gpu part still 1:1 reproduces the cpu output.