* Tom Lane:
> Yeah. You certainly don't want to do the division sequence twice,
> and a log() call wouldn't be cheap either, and there don't seem to
> be many other alternatives.
What about a sequence of comparisons, and unrolling the loop? That
could avoid the final division, too. It might also be helpful to
break down the dependency chain for large input values.
The int8 version should probably work in 1e9 chunks and use a
zero-padding variant of the 32-bit code.
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