Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles
* Niko Tyni:
> The benefits are obviously improved numeric range and precision. The
> downside is presumably increased memory usage. I have no measurement
> data on this; suggestions on suitable tests would be welcome.
I have run into several incompatibilities between i386 and amd64 due
to different Perl integer sizes, so I'm definitely in favor of 64-bit
integers.
I'm not sure if long doubles are a win. The rest of the world runs on
64 bit floating point numbers, so this would introduce additional
incompatibilities.
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