[erlang-questions] divrem eep?

[Tony Rogvall]

On 21 aug 2014, at 12:18, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:

> Why would you make an instruction for the tuple-returning variant? That would be just calling your divrem BIF.
> 
Slightly faster execution in some cases, like small, small arguments for example.
And also as a preparation for new instructions that could fallback to the more general one?

Just guessing. I have not implemented the instructions yet. And maybe never will....?

/Tony


> -- 
> Anthony Ramine
> 
> Le 21 août 2014 à 12:11, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> a écrit :
> 
>> This instruction needs a couple of 
>> variants I guess: One that return a tuple and one that store remainder in
>> a X register as instructed by compiler.
> 

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