[M3devel] __int128 coming to gcc

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:23:52PM -0500, Tony Hosking wrote:
> Possibly, but it would require some fairly strong type analysis in the 
compiler.

Analysis that could be done during code generation.

>  And of course it is not fully general.

Of course.  Optimisations only work when they can be proved to.  But 
when they do work, they can make a lot of difference.

-- hendrik