What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)

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  • go

    The Go programming language

    > I wonder if this has changed since 2014?

    Probably not. LLVM reduced the number of LEAs in 2017. https://reviews.llvm.org/D32277

    Golang is gradually reducing the number of slow LEAs. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21735

    > grep '\blea\b' | wc -l

    This isn't sophisticated enough. The two operating

  • ocaml

    The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries

    Looks like there have been proposals to eliminate use of 3 operand lea in OCaml code (not accepted sadly):

    https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8531

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