yes I think so too.

On Sep 18, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> my take is normalize integers after manipulating with them using digitAt:put:
> because if not, then you can't rely on size when comparing numbers,
> and comparison will become much slower, since you forced to always
> compare contents,
> regardless that size is different.
> 
> On 18 September 2010 11:14, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> hi guys
>> 
>> what your take on
>> 
>>        http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2968
>> 
>> Stef
>> 
>> "The same value in a LargePositiveInteger and a SmallInteger will not 
>> compare properly. The same value in two LargePositiveIntegers will not 
>> compare properly, if their byte sizes are different. I think the problem is 
>> in Integer>>#digitCompare: It gives incorrect results if the digitLengths 
>> are different between receiver and arg. This bug cost me about a day to find 
>> and fix. Maybe it has been addressed in a newer image/vm but I thought I 
>> would offer my fix to save someone else some time if it hasn't been dealt 
>> with yet. (I searched all issues)
>> 
>> Pharo image: Pharo1.0-10508-rc2dev10.01.2.image
>> Pharo core version: Pharo-1.0-10508-rc2 Latest update: #10508
>> Virtual machine used: <Squeak 4.2.5b1 - Mac OSX>
>> 
>> 
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1.
>> 
>> (Integer new: 6 neg: false) = (Integer new: 8 neg: false) "0 = 0 should 
>> return true"
>> 
>> 
>> 2.
>> 
>> | int |
>> int := Integer new: 6 neg: false.
>> int digitAt: 1 put: 6.
>> ^int = 6     "6 = 6 should return true""
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> 
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