On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:34:44 +0100
Nicolas Oury <nicolas.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Daniel Gagnon <redalas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If we base the decision on the average guy not writing high performance
> > numeric apps, then we should also base it on the fact that he does not need
> > more than a long in 99% of cases either as Rich points out. And longs are a
> > much simpler concept to grok.
>
> +1. The average guy understands that "big numbers" are something special.
> The average guy also want to have close to native speed when he first tries
> a language, not * 10 or * 20 that.
Yes, but we've as yet to see that having auto-promotion as the default
buys the average app *10 or *20. The best we've seen is 10-20%, which
isn't really enough to justify the reduces range for what "just
works".
<mike
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