Is there a good lib out there to handle large integer of know size ?

Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 12 08:41:03 PDT 2017


On Monday, 12 June 2017 at 13:41:36 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> You misunderstood. We need cent/ucent supported by the compiler 
> to get to larger integral types efficiently. There are no ways 
> around it. There are a ton of operations such as the X86 MUL 
> which are able to produce a large multiplication into 2 
> registers. There are no way to leverage these without compiler 
> provided cent/ucent.

  Agreed. But until larger types are natively avaliable (either by 
simulation built into the compiler or by hardware registers) you 
gotta work with what you got.


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