Hey, can we get a Reply-to: on this list? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] Re: psyco in Python was: Minimal Python project Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:13:12 +0100 From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com> To: Christian Tismer <tismer@tismer.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301171553220.25684-100000@starship.python.net> <3E2855C7.5010107@gmx.de> <3E289AB8.105@tismer.com> Christian Tismer wrote:

Thomas Fanslau wrote:

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And don't forget the obvious replacement of a multiply by some shifts, so multiply by 5 can be replaced by a copy, a right shift 2 places and a add instead of a costly multiply ...

Ok, my 2 Eurocent:

Also don't forget that this is not always true.

Yes, on the VAX a _floating point_ multiply was faster than a shift.