[Python-Dev] Memory size overflows

[Greg Ewing]

> Re-calculating the product with integer multiplication is probably faster 
> than converting a double to integer on any sane CPU. 

Um... what would be "sane" about that?

I don't know much about the Pentium. I do know that
the PowerPC doesn't have any way of moving a value
from a float to an integer register without going
through memory... but I regard that as a decidedly
INsane feature!

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