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Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour.

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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> That's not necessary, but it means that the results of these
> microbenchmarks may say more about your optimizations than about
> floored vs. symmetric division on your hardware.

I know div, mod, and divMod in Haskell (like /, mod, and /mod in Forth)
give floored division, and if your program uses them a lot and doesn't
actually need floored division, you can often get a worthwhile speedup
by using quot, rem, and quotRem (symmetric division) instead.

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The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-29 14:39 +0000
  Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-03-29 16:20 +0000
    Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-03-29 09:16 -1000
      Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-30 00:06 +0000
        Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. mhx@iae.nl - 2016-03-29 22:09 -0700
          Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-03-29 21:37 -1000
          Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-30 00:48 -0700
            Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-30 00:48 -0700
          Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-03-30 07:59 +0000
            Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. mhx@iae.nl - 2016-03-30 10:16 -0700
              Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-30 23:43 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. mhx@iae.nl - 2016-03-31 06:01 -0700
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-01 21:36 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. mhx@iae.nl - 2016-04-01 14:57 -0700
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-01 21:59 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. mhx@iae.nl - 2016-04-02 00:51 -0700
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-01 08:25 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-01 21:32 +0000
                division performance (was: The problem with implementation defined ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-05 11:12 +0000
                Re: division performance (was: The problem with implementation defined ...) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-05 20:45 +0000
                Re: division performance (was: The problem with implementation defined ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-06 10:03 +0000
                Re: division performance (was: The problem with implementation defined ...) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-08 22:53 +0000
                Re: division performance (was: The problem with implementation defined ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-09 10:14 +0000
                Re: division performance (was: The problem with implementation defined ...) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-09 13:43 +0000
              Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-03-31 10:55 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. mhx@iae.nl - 2016-03-31 06:38 -0700
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-03-31 16:21 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-31 11:49 -0700
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-03-31 10:11 -1000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. mhx@iae.nl - 2016-04-01 03:53 -0700
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-01 11:44 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-01 21:53 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-04-02 11:46 -0500
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-02 21:43 +0000
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-04-03 03:17 -0500
                Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-04-01 23:54 -0700
          Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-30 12:58 +0000
          Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-30 22:22 +0000
        Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-30 12:55 +0000
      Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-03-30 07:44 +0000
        Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-30 13:08 +0000
          Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-03-30 13:43 +0000
        Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-30 22:06 +0000
      Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. trevor <tgritchie@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-03-30 13:13 +0100
        Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-30 13:56 +0000
      Re: The problem with implementation defined behaviour. Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-30 12:49 +0000

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