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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Was this what you benchmarked, or did you do bit shuffling?
>
> I did something similar for all the four (IVIV, IVUV, UVIV, UVUV)
> cases, by checking against the arguments and {IV_{MIN,MAX,UV_MAX}
> (I did both add and substract, and a half-hearted attempt with multiply).
Ah. I felt that UVIV and IVUV was not going to be simple, so assumed that
something like
if (IVIV) {
add IVs
return result unless overflow;
} elsif (UVUV) {
add UVs
return result unless overflow;
}
convert to NVs
return add NVs
might be faster than just doing everything as NVs. (I guess it depends on
relative speed of integer and FP on your CPU)
However, it might be useful to go to the effort on IVUV and UVIV as it
(with UVUV an IVIV) would make 64 bit arithmetic more sane on platforms
where NV can't preserve all bits in IV. (I think.)
Nicholas Clark
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