dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article
You know, the unimplemented 128 bit integer types.
Does anyone have a use for these?
Well, we've got bigints in both Phobos and Tango now. Given the clumsiness or
downright impossibility of manipulating 128-bit ints in hardware on x86-32,
would
they even be much faster than bigints? I mean, you couldn't even fit 2 128-bit
ints plus a stack pointer in the general-purpose registers of an x86.
It can be done (not impractical at all), the issue is is it worth while?
