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From: "redi at gcc dot gnu.org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug libstdc++/87744] Some valid instantiations of linear_congruential_engine produce compiler errors when __int128 isn't available
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:38:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-87744-4-YdjvUVyslZ@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-87744-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87744

--- Comment #13 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #11)
> Though, if it is common enough, one could try to optimize the __ll[0] == 0
> && __xx[0] == 0 case, one can do then either 32x32->64 or 64x64->64
> multiplication and be done with it.  But if it is rare in random's usage, it
> would just make the code larger.

We will only use this new type when the calculation a*(m-1)+c doesn't fit in 64
bits, and the input values should be uniformly distributed in [0,m) for a good
choice of parameters (and for a bad choice of parameters, you have bigger
problems than the calculation being slow!)

For a small value of a and large value of c we would use this new type but the
multiplication step would overflow infrequently, but I don't think that's a
good choice of parameters and not worth optimizing for.

So I think we should just use the full 64x64 multiplication unconditionally.

For operator% the if (__l._M_hi == 0) branch is probably worth it, because the
general case is so much more expensive.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2024-02-06 21:09 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 21:21 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 21:28 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 21:32 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 21:46 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 21:48 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 21:51 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 21:51 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 22:04 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 22:12 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-06 22:14 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-02-07 10:14 ` lrflew.coll at gmail dot com
2024-02-07 10:38 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org [this message]
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