RE: [Axiom-developer] algebra cycles again (was: Left shifts of n egative numbers)

[Page, Bill]

Dylan, Tim;

Now Tim has scared me too! <grin>

I am in favour of just changing the use of shift
in float.spad.

Cheers,
Bill.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:15 PM
> To: root
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] algebra cycles again (was: 
> Left shifts of
> negative numbers)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:02:49PM -0400, root wrote:
> > 4 shift is HIGHLY optimized. if you change it you need to use lisp
> >   disassemble to examine the code generated by the compiler. The
> >   SINT domain is on the critical path for nearly everything.
> 
> OK.  It seems like maintaining the behaviour float.spad seems to be
> expecting is going to be slower than the current situation.  How
> loudly will anyone object if we leave 'shift' so that it does what
> Common Lisp calls an 'arithmetic shift' (i.e., shift(-7,-1) = -4), and
> change the code in float.spad?
> 
> Peace,
>       Dylan
>