4 Oct
2008
4 Oct
'08
5:35 p.m.
Adding builtin support for unsigned native integers would mean adding another core runtime type, and then add another special case to every single place that handles native integers. That's a lot of places. I'll bet pike as a whole would get significantly slower due to the general code bloat.
Btw, I think we've had this discussion before, when Alexander Demenshin proposed the same thing. (Where is he now?)