[MLton-devel] cvs commit: removed __asm__ for Int_quot and Int_rem

[Stephen Weeks]

> I think that 5 (using an if-test to guarentee sign-extension) would be pretty
> bad.  My notion is the interaction with branch prediction would be rather
> poor because it wouldn't be predictable. 

Makes sense.  This might even be worse than a C procedure call.

> For IntInf I don't think the price is too high if it can be avoided in the
> fixnum case.

I can't make any sense of this.  We always use stripTag in the fixnum
case.  How could it be avoided?

I am now leaning towards 3, because that would at least isolate
potential bugs, or maybe 1, to be safest.


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