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Hello everyone!
While working on bn.js, I have found one bottleneck in integer
multiplication
which could be solved with introduction of a new Math functions.
In [multiply operation][0] the most expensive part is obviously an integer
multiplication. EcmaScript could operate with 51bit numbers without the
loose of
precision, but the whole thing requires compilers to translate SMIs (small
integers) into a floating point values and operate on them.
Introduction of `Math.mulxHigh` and `Math.mulxLow` with a help of compiler
could
make this limitation go away. Namely, a compiler could coalesce these two
calls
into a one `mulx` instruction, making it possible to implement big numbers
with
a 32 bit limb.
The code sample is following:
var hi = Math.mulxHigh(a, b); // High 32 bits of the multiplication
result
var lo = Math.mulxLow(a, b); // Low 32 bits of the multiplication
result
And this could be translated to a just:
movx rax, rbx, rcx
on IA32 platform. On the platforms that do not have a single instruction for
this operation, the resulting code should still be faster, because it could
avoid `integer -> floating point -> integer` conversion.
I'm open to any suggestions. What do you think?
Thank you,
Fedor.
[0]:
https://github.com/indutny/bn.js/blob/95e0623aaa637a3a6a87f9a7b30aafed758aa4eb/lib/bn.js#L590-L599
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