[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #14716: Change integer overflow check in unicode_writer_prepare() (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 8 01:12:09 CEST 2012


Mark Dickinson wrote:

Is the gain from this kind of micro-optimization really worth the cost of replacing obviously correct code with code whose correctness needs several minutes of thought?

The original code isn't all that obviously correct to me either. I would need convincing that the arithmetic being used to check for overflow can't itself suffer from overflow. At least that much is obvious from the new version.

-- Greg



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