Developing blockchain software with D, not C++

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 09:02:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I don't remember how long, but it took me a fair while to do 
> the divide:
>
>   https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/rt/llmath.d
>
> It could be upscaled by rote to 128 bits, but even that would 
> take me much longer than an hour. And it would still leave the 
> issue of making ucent work with 32 bit code gen.
>
> It could also be translated to D, but I doubt the generated 
> code would be as good.
>
> Nevertheless, we do have the technology, we just need someone 
> to put it together.

All the code to split 64 bits into 32 bits was generic and could 
be reused.