Question about Linus' QOTW

Posted Aug 25, 2011 16:30 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
In reply to: Question about Linus' QOTW by bronson
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Linus says this later (which I also consider QotW material):

Big 64-bit divides are bad bad bad. They are so horrendously bad on 32-bit that we don't even support them.

Which is in no way an overstatement of the badness, so I think you got it just right. It is ungodly expensive, indeed.