On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 22:11:15 UTC, ponce wrote: [cut]
- normal arithmetic operator throw a trap on integer overflow (!). This must be incredibly slow.
Well, Apple make their own CPU, so maybe they plan to add 'trap on integer overflow' operation to the CPU?
The most difficult part is finding where to put the 'trap on overflow' bit in the ISA, the implementation is nearly free..
renoX
