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   On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 11:30:56 GMT   
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:   
   > Paul Rubin  writes:   
   > >#1 on TIOBE is   
   > >Python, which uses arbitrary precision as the native integer type.  That   
   > >slows arithmetic down but it mostly eliminates the overflow problem.   
   >   
   > If implemented well, the slowdown is small in the common case (small   
   > integers): E.g., on AMD64 an add, sub, or imul instruction just needs   
   > to be followed by a jo which in the usual case is not taken and very   
   > predictable.   
      
   Don't you also need to first check that both arguments are small   
   integers ?   
      
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