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[Python-Dev] Memory size overflows

[Python-Dev] Memory size overflows [Python-Dev] Memory size overflowsGreg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:39:23 +1300 (NZDT)
> Re-calculating the product with integer multiplication is probably faster 
> than converting a double to integer on any sane CPU. 

Um... what would be "sane" about that?

I don't know much about the Pentium. I do know that
the PowerPC doesn't have any way of moving a value
from a float to an integer register without going
through memory... but I regard that as a decidedly
INsane feature!

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