On Monday, 31 December 2012 at 19:10:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
but I don't see what the point is of library types for them, not when we already have BigInt.

Fixed sizes means no GC/allocation for passing the data around to functions; And optimized assembly code. Beyond that, it doesn't seem highly important. But if it's around as a viable option people will begin using it.

 You never know when/where you could need it.

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