bigints

[Scott S. McCoy]

Wow, factor!  I interviewed the kid who designed that language just a
few months ago.  He's sharp as a tack, and passed up our job to work on
DSL research.

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 05:29 -0400, bearophile wrote:
> When I talk about adding multiprecision integral numbers to D (mostly becasue using them avoids most integer bugs), I usually add that the compiler can then use many tricks to speed them up, this simple post shows few examples of those tricks (so to be faster they may enjoy compiler support, as today D complex numbers have):
> http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2008/04/performance-improvements.html
> 
> With AST macros and multiprecision numbers D may look closer to a Lisp ;-)
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile