[gambit-list] Using the overflow tests from Hacker's Delight

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Sun May 8 15:43:58 EDT 2005


Marc:

Here are the diffs for _num.scm after I used the overflow tests from 
Hacker's Delight.  There should be fewer jumps in ##+ and ##-, and 
fewer unnecessary calls to ##bignum.*.  For example, with the old code 
we have

     617203464 bytes allocated

and

     768376664 bytes allocated

when using binary splitting applied to some series to compute e and pi 
to 10,000 digits, but with the new code we have

     612389032 bytes allocated

and

     764550248 bytes allocated

Not a big difference, but it may help more for other codes.

Brad

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