Cent/UCent as library types

Era Scarecrow rtcvb32 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 31 11:24:42 PST 2012


On Monday, 31 December 2012 at 19:10:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> but I don't see what the point is of library types for them, 
> not when we already have BigInt.

  Fixed sizes means no GC/allocation for passing the data around 
to functions; And optimized assembly code. Beyond that, it 
doesn't seem highly important. But if it's around as a viable 
option people will begin using it.

  You never know when/where you could need it.


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