Walter Bright:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/839
Why aren't functions with ubyte/byte/short/ushort arguments
included?
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Here Lionello Lunesu has suggested a __traits(valueRange,
<expression>) for built-in values:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
Once such trait is working on checkedint values, can this help
the compiler remove some useless tests and increase the
performance of checked ints?
it can be used to implement multi-precision integer arithmetic
types.
It looks very useful for the "small value optimization" for
BigIntegers, to not allocate on the heap when the numbers are
small, and switch to the heap allocation when they grow.
If you use such improved bigintegers to write code that is not
supposed to overflow the range of normal integers, you obtain
code that is only moderately slower than using checkedints, but
it also gives the correct results if some overflow has occurred
:-)
Bye,
bearophile
