Adding constant folding for Integer div and mod

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Fri Jul 19 19:25:13 CEST 2013


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl>wrote:

> It seems that currently there are no built-in constant folding rules for
> Integer div and mod. I plan on adding those rules, but before I do that I
> wanted to ask whether there is a good reason that these rules don't exist?
>

I would guess that Integer arithmetic doesn't affect people's performance
much, because a lot of people steer away from Integer. I'd be focusing my
attention on fixed-width numeric types and floating point, as likely to
have a much larger real-world impact.
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