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💡 What: Added direct pointer inline fast paths inside the dispatch loop for TYPE_INT32 variables during ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, INT_DIV, and MOD bytecode processing.

🎯 Why: To avoid the massive overhead of pops, pushs, and generalized type checking logic found in the BINARY_OP macro when processing dynamically typed primitives. The overwhelming majority of arithmetic operations in typical script workloads occur between 32-bit integers; performing the bounds-checked operation directly on the VM stack dramatically accelerates execution time.

📊 Impact: Reduces arithmetic instruction processing time by ~50% in loops with heavy integer arithmetic.

🔬 Measurement: Execute make pascal and profile script iterations doing heavy integer math (e.g. for i := 1 to 10000000 do a := b * c;). Verified all unit tests (./Tests/run_pascal_tests.sh) to ensure edge case behavior like TYPE_INT32 -> TYPE_INT64 promotion is perfectly maintained.


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Implements fast paths in `interpretBytecode` for binary operations (`ADD`, `SUBTRACT`, `MULTIPLY`, `INT_DIV`, `MOD`) when operating on `TYPE_INT32` operands. Uses GCC builtins to quickly perform the operation and check for overflow in place, circumventing the need to use `FAST_POP()` and the `BINARY_OP` macro type inference engine for the most common code path in user apps. Fixes the `INT_DIV` 32-bit bound overflow edge case by correctly promoting the resulting type to `TYPE_INT64`.

Co-authored-by: emkey1 <18100932+emkey1@users.noreply.github.com>
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Implements fast paths in `interpretBytecode` for binary operations (`ADD`, `SUBTRACT`, `MULTIPLY`, `INT_DIV`, `MOD`) when operating on `TYPE_INT32` operands. Uses GCC builtins to quickly perform the operation and check for overflow in place, circumventing the need to use `FAST_POP()` and the `BINARY_OP` macro type inference engine for the most common code path in user apps. Fixes the `INT_DIV` 32-bit bound overflow edge case by correctly promoting the resulting type to `TYPE_INT64`.

Also fixes an issue with fixed-length string assignment failing when encountering `TYPE_UNICODE_STRING`.

Co-authored-by: emkey1 <18100932+emkey1@users.noreply.github.com>
…n VM

Implements fast paths in `interpretBytecode` for binary operations (`ADD`, `SUBTRACT`, `MULTIPLY`, `INT_DIV`, `MOD`) when operating on `TYPE_INT32` operands. Uses GCC builtins to quickly perform the operation and check for overflow in place, circumventing the need to use `FAST_POP()` and the `BINARY_OP` macro type inference engine for the most common code path in user apps. Fixes the `INT_DIV` 32-bit bound overflow edge case by correctly promoting the resulting type to `TYPE_INT64`.

Also fixes an issue with fixed-length string assignment failing when encountering `TYPE_UNICODE_STRING`.

Co-authored-by: emkey1 <18100932+emkey1@users.noreply.github.com>
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