[issue4258] Use 30-bit digits instead of 15-bit digits for Python integers.

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

> unsigned long long m(unsigned long long a, unsigned long b)
> {
>        return a*b;
> }

I think that's doing a 32 x 64 -> 64 multiplication;  what's being used is 
more like this:

unsigned long long m(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
{
    return (unsigned long long)a*b;
}

which gcc -O3 compiles to:

	pushl	%ebp
	movl	%esp, %ebp
	movl	12(%ebp), %eax
	mull	8(%ebp)
	leave
	ret

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