On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:30 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Yaron Minsky:
> 
> > That's a problem too, but there is at least a defensible reason for
> > that, which is that it is expensive to get integer overflow to throw
> > an exception.
> 
> i386 and amd64 have hardware support for that, so it's not very
> expensive.  There are pretty short RISC sequences for the checks, too.
> 
> MLton uses the i386 hardware support, and I think you can disable the
> checks, so measuring the overhead shouldn't be too hard.

But there is a difference you may have missed: Ocaml integers
are 31 or 63 bits, not 32 or 64 bits. 

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