On 2023-01-02 14:38:51 Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2023, at 19:38, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > On 2023-01-02 10:32:07 Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
> >> I don't know how I've never gotten around to making this wish:
> >> Sure would be nice to have a method that returned both the
> >> integer quotient and the remainder without having to do the
> >> division twice...
> >
> > Something like I've attached?
> >
> > Leslie
>
> There's no obvious saving in CPU time or anything else in doing that;
> all you have done is hidden the two divisions away. It would be surely
> be better if the dual division (if it HAS to be done) was done within
> one method, or function (for Classic support), in the interpreter itself.
I think, then, you will need an assembler routine for that. AFAIK no
high-level language
has a construct to do both at once.
Leslie
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