You’re going to likely have this with database as well - at least ODBC presents decimals as strings, because they can’t be represented as a C type (without turning it into a struct of some sort).
> On Apr 26, 2023, at 9:23 AM, Alexander Pravdin <alex.prav...@interi.co> wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 20:52, Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For what it’s worth, this is already solved in userland: >> https://github.com/brick/math > > When I checked the sources, the first I saw was: > >> final class BigInteger extends BigNumber >> { >> private string $value; > > It also converts to strings back and forth which can not be as > performant as native calculations and still is (with respect to the > authors) yet another band-aid over the missing core functionality. I > know that there are workarounds, but my proposal is about native > support. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
