128 bit signed and unsigned integer types

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Dec 28 08:59:57 PST 2008


Walter Bright wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
>> Hello Walter,
>>
>>> You know, the unimplemented 128 bit integer types.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a use for these?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Was that "cent" and "ucent"?
> 
> yes.
> 
>> Would any of these map well to SSE Instructions on Intel CPU's?
> 
> Not a chance :-(

Then it looks like we better leave large fixed-size integers to a library.

Andrei



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