"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does Python's run-time do any optimization of multiplication >operations, like it does for boolean short-cutting? That is, for a >product a*b, is there any shortcutting of (potentially expensive) >multiplication operations as in:
Integer multiplication is a 1-cycle operation in Intel processors. Even multiple-precision multiplication is very efficient -- probably more so than multiple comparisons and jumps. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
