Lithium currently supports 3 division-like operations on integral operands: "Normal" division (rounding towards zero), flooring division (rounding towards -Infinity) and modulus calculation (the counterpart for the "normal" division). For divisors which are a power of 2, one can efficiently use some bit fiddling to avoid the actual division for such operations. This CL cleanly splits off these operations into separate Lithium instructions, making the code much more maintainable and more consistent across platforms.
There are 2 basic variations of these bit fiddling algorithms: One involving branches and a seemingly more clever one without branches. Choosing between the two is not as easy as it seems: Benchmarks (and probably real-world) programs seem to favor positive dividends, registers and shifting units are sometimes scarce resources, and branch prediction is quite good in modern processors. Therefore only the "normal" division by a power of 2 is implemented in a branch-free manner, this seems to be the best approach in practice. If this turns out to be wrong, we can easily and locally change this.
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Arithmetic right shifting is *not* division in two's complement
representation, only in one's complement. So we convert to one's
complement, shift, and go back to two's complement. By permutating the
last steps, one can get efficient branch-free code. This insight comes
from the paleozoic era of computer science, see the paper from 1976:
Guy Lewis Steele Jr.: "Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful"
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-378.pdf
This results in better and more correct code than our previous
"neg/shift/neg" dance.
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