Revert multiply to use non-intrinsic exactness checks #8523
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The call to Math.multiplyExact works very well when the result does not overflow, skipping range checks and using the host CPU's support for overflow checks. However when we are dancing on the range boundary and multiplyExact fails repeatedly, the cost of raising all those exceptions massively outweighs the gains.
This is the primary cause of performance issues reported in #8516.
This patch reverts to a version of the old range-checking logic. Performance on the bug report's benchmark is an order of magnitude faster for the two cases that seemed to overflow a lot, and the other cases do not seem to degrade.
Fixes #8516