26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
3:05 p.m.
Yes. The most common operation is probably to use a protocol with 32 bit integers; sscanf "%4c" will create bignums if the result is bigger then MAXINT. (It's one of the benchmark tests now.)
/ Mirar
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2003-02-26 20:14: Subject: Re: Floating point (conversion) bug (affected: v7.4 & v7.5; may be Hilfe only)
Of course, if you do a log of calculations of itnegers that fit in 64 bits but not 32, using 64 bit ints will be a lot faster even on 32 bit machines. The bignum support isn't fast.
/ David Hedbor