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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
November 11, 2000 17:03
Subject:
Re: pp_add -> pp_i_add efficiency hack?
Message ID:
20001111190319.A4621@chaos.wustl.edu
> Ah. I felt that UVIV and IVUV was not going to be simple, so assumed that

Healthy instintcs, there :-)

> 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.)

That's why I have been diddling many a time with the said code.

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