Wanted: 128 bit integers
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Thu Mar 15 08:38:21 PDT 2012
Andrei Alexandrescu:
> My suggestion is to focus on fixed arbitrary-sized integers in
> Phobos, and then add optimizations for 64-bit integers on
> architectures that support it.
I think library-defined fixed arbitrary-sized integers and
built-in cent/ucent types are both useful to have. One doesn't
fully replace the other. cent/ucent is more efficient (even on 32
bit systems), while FixedInt is more flexible.
But both are low-priority.
Bye,
bearophile
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