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strange idea : really big integers....
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- Subject: strange idea : really big integers....
- From: teunis <teunis at mauve dot computersupportcentre dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:06:37 -0700 (MST)
(from talking about large filesystems in linux-kernel :)
Is there any thoughts about basic datatypes (ie: integers) with >64bit
sizes?
ie: 128bit (or bigger) integers?
"long long long" as one person put it :)
I can't offhand see any hardware supporting such yet...
... but I could be wrong.
[didn't cray have bit-scalable integer types - as in integers with
variable bit precision?]
I think I'll go crawl back under the rock now :)
[and implement this properly using stacks or something... u8[16]
mayhaps...]
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis