Computer Language Shootout - concurrency

[Thomas Lindgren]

--- "Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB)" <ulf.wiger@REDACTED>
wrote:

> If there were is_smallint/1 guards, the compiler
> could probably speed this up significantly.
> It would still have to check for bignum results,
> of course.

Yes, in principle it could. A sufficiently smart
compiler (similar to SELF-91) could even clone two
copies of the code, stay in the fixnum version
normally, and jump to the general version on overflow.

Best,
Thomas



		
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