Re: [Squeak-VMdev] Versiojn 4 changes

[Ian P. <ian...@in...>]

On 07 Apr 2004, at 00:35, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Lastly, I don't really see where this would
> really help any integer operations - most of them can simply drop the 
> low
> bits and would have to do this regardless of whether there's a one or 
> a zero
> in it (no clear advantage here).

If you can do double-word products and then correct for the 4-bit 
"drift", it saves you a cycle or two.

Otherwise I agree.

Ian