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-rw-r--r--Objects/longobject.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c
index ee20e26..5f0cc57 100644
--- a/Objects/longobject.c
+++ b/Objects/longobject.c
@@ -2767,8 +2767,15 @@ x_divrem(PyLongObject *v1, PyLongObject *w1, PyLongObject **prem)
vtop = vk[size_w];
assert(vtop <= wm1);
vv = ((twodigits)vtop << PyLong_SHIFT) | vk[size_w-1];
+ /* The code used to compute the remainder via
+ * r = (digit)(vv - (twodigits)wm1 * q);
+ * and compilers generally generated code to do the * and -.
+ * But modern processors generally compute q and r with a single
+ * instruction, and modern optimizing compilers exploit that if we
+ * _don't_ try to optimize it.
+ */
q = (digit)(vv / wm1);
- r = (digit)(vv - (twodigits)wm1 * q); /* r = vv % wm1 */
+ r = (digit)(vv % wm1);
while ((twodigits)wm2 * q > (((twodigits)r << PyLong_SHIFT)
| vk[size_w-2])) {
--q;