strange idea : really big integers....

[teunis]

(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