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The entire premise of the linked article is that doing it the way you suggest is too expensive for the common case, where no overflow hap...

The entire premise of the linked article is that doing it the way you suggest is too expensive for the common case, where no overflow happens. Further, it implicitly asserts that the cost of a hardware trap/exception, while great, will be offset by the savings from the common case. Now, it doesn't back these assertions with much data, but neither do you :)

Posted by maggit on Jun 4, 2014, 7:22 PM

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The entire premise of the linked article is that doing it the way you suggest is too expensive for the common case, where no overflow hap...

maggitJun 4, 2014, 7:22 PM

The entire premise of the linked article is that doing it the way you suggest is too expensive for the common case, where no overflow happens. Further, it implicitly asserts that the cost of a hardware trap/exception, while great, will be offset by the savings from the common case. Now, it doesn't back these assertions with much data, but neither do you :)

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