#25317 [Opn->Bgs]: Would like a 64-bit integer native type

ID: 25317 Updated by: nlopess@php.net Reported By: phpbug at paypc dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: All PHP Version: 4.3.3 New Comment: duplicate of #11060. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-29 16:49:18] phpbug at paypc dot com Description: ------------ This is fairly straightforward. Right now, native numeric types are float/doubles and 32-bit integers. Given that > 4GB of memory in a machine is affordable even for the home consumer, it is important to be able to represent exact cardinal values without any floating-point nonsense. I don't know how much impact this would have the internals of Zend, or performance for that matter. Non-64-bit-native CPUs could probably adopt optimisations to avoid having to do 64-bit operations on values / expressions where the values are not expected to exceed 32 bits of value, or perhaps, via "type-hinting" by the programmer. I realise that "bcmath" stuff can handle an effectively infinitely large integer value... but that's really a string-math subsystem with all of the usual limitations (and performance costs). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25317&edit=1