On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Fabrice, > > Thanks for the proposal, I ran it by TC39 yesterday and it advanced to > stage 0. This means work getting to stage 1, per: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbEE0BsO4lvl7NFTn5WXWeiEIBfaV > UF7Dk0hpPpPDzU/edit > > The committee liked it not only for emulating int64 and uint64 more > efficiently (e.g., for Emscripten), even though we intend to support int64 > and uint64 value objects, but also for bignum emulation (using 64-bit > "bigits" or "big digits", h/t Mark Miller), decimal emulation, etc. > AFAIK, coined by http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=319861 , though Smalltalk used the technique much earlier. > > This gist > > https://gist.github.com/BrendanEich/4294d5c212a6d2254703 > > is based on your original post, but with a name change suggested by > several on TC39: imuluh => umulh. > > Feedback welcome. Thanks again for suggesting this -- thanks to @mraleph > for his earlier proposal too. > > /be > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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