bigints

[Walter Bright]

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): 


Coincidentally, I had just made a blog post about why ints are core 
types, and touched on the same issues:

http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Core-vs-Library.html&Itemid=29