Multiplication optimization

[Tim Roberts]

"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>Does Python's run-time do any optimization of multiplication
>operations, like it does for boolean short-cutting?  That is, for a
>product a*b, is there any shortcutting of (potentially expensive)
>multiplication operations as in:

Integer multiplication is a 1-cycle operation in Intel processors.

Even multiple-precision multiplication is very efficient -- probably more
so than multiple comparisons and jumps.
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