bug#42147: 28.0.50; pure vs side-effect-free, missing optimizations?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Anyway, since we now have bignums and have standardised on IEEE 754 binary64
> floats, is there a reason to keep byte-opt-portable-numberp?

Indeed, it seems like it might not be needed any more.

> If we want to make allowance for capricious x87 rounding, what about
> rewriting it to accept integral floats in the ±2^53 range, as well as any
> integer? This is what it might look like:

I must say I don't know what x87 rounding has to do with it.

I'd tend to assume that x87 rounding can virtually never be seen from
Elisp because it's hard to imagine how the C compiler will manage to
keep our Elisp floats long enough in the x87 stack to avoid rounding
back to 64bit floats between every Elisp-level operation.
Or are we worried about the double-rounding of x87?


        Stefan