64 KiB should be enough for everyone

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/21/2014 1:33 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> As someone using unsigned types all the time, all I need to
> keep in mind are two rules:
>
> 1) Overflow:
>
>    uint number;
>    …
>    number = 10 * number + ch - '0';
>
>    It is handled with:
>    if (number > uint.max / 10)
>    if (number > uint.max - (ch - '0'))

You're better off with core.checkedint here, as not only is it correct, but 
(eventually) it will enable the compiler to optimize it to simply checking the 
carry flag.