Wanted: 128 bit integers

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/15/12 1:42 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Manu"<turkeyman at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.657.1331715447.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
>>
>> Why aren't they implemented in a library for the time being at least, so
>> code can compile and work?
>>
>
> The obvious answer is because nobody's done it yet.
>
> I have a branch that partially implements ucent in the dmd backend
> (somewhere in my fork on github), but it will likely be at least a month
> before I have time to work on it again.  It looks like it will be pretty
> easy on 64 bit.

My suggestion is to focus on fixed arbitrary-sized integers in Phobos, 
and then add optimizations for 64-bit integers on architectures that 
support it.

Andrei