128 bit signed and unsigned integer types

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 27 23:00:28 PST 2008


== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> You know, the unimplemented 128 bit integer types.
> Does anyone have a use for these?

Well, we've got bigints in both Phobos and Tango now.  Given the clumsiness or
downright impossibility of manipulating 128-bit ints in hardware on x86-32, would
they even be much faster than bigints?  I mean, you couldn't even fit 2 128-bit
ints plus a stack pointer in the general-purpose registers of an x86.



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