[Vm-dev] 3 Bugs in LargeInteger primitives

[Stefan Marr]

Hi:

On 30 Aug 2012, at 01:14, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

> 
> See also http://code.google.com/p/cog/issues/detail?id=92 where I
> attached a fix for large int
> It's untested yet and to review carefully !
> 
> As Stefan told, there is UB-reliance in SmallInteger primitives too,
> but I did not fix them.
> We should simply compute result as signed 64 bits as proposed by
> Stefan (except bitShift)

This might be the simplest solution, but at least on the RoarVM I measured a significant performance impact on tight integer loops.
It's 20% according to my measurements.

Might be something necessary to be considered.

Best regards
Stefan


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