Re: unsigned integer
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:48:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: unsigned integer | ||
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On 22 Jul 2014, at 23:43, Marc Bennewitz <php@mabe.berlin> wrote:
> You have added the new type internally only. Does it make sense or would
> it be possible to use one more internal type like "ULONG" to safe
> mem/cpu in such cases because bigint/GMP objects are used only on much
> higher numbers?
You *could* do that, yes, but considering the massive effort needed just to implement bigints, I
don’t see the point. It’d also mean we’d have three different integer types and four different
numeric types if bigints pass, which is even more work for people handling ovals.
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Andrea Faulds
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