Hi all, the Perl 6 specification says we need to implement types such as UInt64, that is an unsigned 64 bit integer. And Rakudo is now at the point where it makes sense to support such types. For example a number type we use fairly often is 'Rat', a rational number that stores the denominator as such a uint64.
Are there any plans from the Parrot side to support more than integer type? I'm pretty sure even 32bit machines support uint64 operation these days (or are easy-ish to do with the help of the carry flag), but it'd be quite hard to handle these types if they don't fit into Parrot's integer registers. On #perl6, Gerd R remarked that most arithmetic ops are the same for signed and unsigned integers (assuming 2s complement), so it might make sense to just always configure parrot to work with 64 bit ints, and provide additional ops for those that work differently depending on signedness (division, comparison). Any thoughts? Cheers, Moritz _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
