[Vm-dev] Cog Primitive Performance

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@
gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Concerning the specific case of hashMultiply, since it's just an imul and
> a bitAnd, the primitive should be inlined by the VM just like other basic
> arithmetic operations IMO.
> So the remarks of Andres makes sense, even if we can't generalize to other
> Misc primitives.
>

Yes, code optimized by Sista should be pretty much as fast as a primitive,
so we could hopefully get rid of many primitives that are just there to
improve performance.

- Bert -
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