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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.