Re: Improve "busy" numeric code's performance [was: Re: Big Integers]

[felix . winkelmann]

> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 02:42:38PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> > Attached are two patches, one which has this bigger improvement, and
> > another which is a minor improvement which translates to shaving about
> > a second of runtime off your program (at least on my machine).
>
> The minor patch was incorrect.  I copied some code from C_s_a_i_remainder
> into C_s_a_i_modulo inline, but that code had an early return for the
> case where both numbers are flonums.  This code needs to be adjusted to
> handle the case when the arguments aren't of the same sign, just like we
> do after returning from integer_divrem().
>
> I'm sending both patches again for your convenience.  The second patch
> has a fix for the aforementioned issue.
>

Appled - thanks!


felix