On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Nathan Froyd <nfr...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Tristan Bourvon <tbour...@mozilla.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Here's the RFC of the overflow builtins:
> >> http://clang-developers.42468.n3.nabble.com/RFC-Introduce-
> >> overflow-builtins-td3838320.html
> >> Along with the tracking issue: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_
> bug.cgi?id=12290
> >> And the patch:
> >> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/commit/
> 98d1ec1e99625176626b0bcd44cef7
> >> df6e89b289
> >>
> >> There's also another patch that was added on top of this one which adds
> >> more overflow builtins:
> >> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/commit/
> c41c63fbf84cc904580e733d1123d3
> >> b03bb5584c
> >>
> >> It seems clear that this optimization could bring big performance
> >> improvements on hot functions. It could also reduce binary size
> >> substantially (we're talking about 14->5 instructions in their case).
> >>
> >
> > Do we have a bug filed to investigate these overflow builtins?  Should we
> > file one?
>
> There is bug 1356936 for mozilla::CheckedInt; I don't know how many
> saturating-style arithmetic implementations we have in the tree, or
> whether similar bugs exist for those.
>

I guess my impression was this would be something we would want the jit to
emit in its bytecode.  But maybe I don't fully understand.
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