Author: [email protected]
Date: Wed Jun 17 12:26:01 2009
New Revision: 2212

Modified:
    branches/bleeding_edge/src/parser.cc

Log:
Don't strength reduce divisions by 1 or 2 as they can often be
handled by an optimistic inline idiv.
Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/125258

Modified: branches/bleeding_edge/src/parser.cc
==============================================================================
--- branches/bleeding_edge/src/parser.cc        (original)
+++ branches/bleeding_edge/src/parser.cc        Wed Jun 17 12:26:01 2009
@@ -2653,10 +2653,15 @@
          double y_val = y->AsLiteral()->handle()->Number();
          int64_t y_int = static_cast<int64_t>(y_val);
          // There are rounding issues with this optimization, but they don't
-        // apply if the number to be divided with has a reciprocal that can
-        // be precisely represented as a floating point number.  This is
-        // the case if the number is an integer power of 2.
-        if (static_cast<double>(y_int) == y_val && IsPowerOf2(y_int)) {
+        // apply if the number to be divided with has a reciprocal that  
can be
+        // precisely represented as a floating point number.  This is the  
case
+        // if the number is an integer power of 2.  Negative integer  
powers of
+        // 2 work too, but for -2, -1, 1 and 2 we don't do the strength
+        // reduction because the inlined optimistic idiv has a reasonable
+        // chance of succeeding by producing a Smi answer with no  
remainder.
+        if (static_cast<double>(y_int) == y_val &&
+            (IsPowerOf2(y_int) || IsPowerOf2(-y_int)) &&
+            (y_int > 2 || y_int < -2)) {
            y = NewNumberLiteral(1 / y_val);
            op = Token::MUL;
          }

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