Thank you for this Timo, and to everyone else who replied. It did indeed
address what I wanted to know. -- Darren Duncan
On 2016-09-13 5:15 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote:
I'll answer based on the data structures MoarVM uses internally:
On 09/13/2016 05:13 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:> (Pretend the
On 09/13/2016 03:12 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote:> If one big integer is
allowed to be 14 gigabytes big (if we use the > default of 28 bits per
"mp digit"; it's also possible to use 31 or > 60.), we can still safely
say "limited only by memory" for now.
Something else that makes this pretty difficult
> On 13 Sep 2016, at 14:15, Timo Paulssen wrote:
>
> I'll answer based on the data structures MoarVM uses internally:
>
> On 09/13/2016 05:13 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:
>
> > (Pretend the actual hardware has infinite memory so we wouldn't run
> > out of hardware first.)
> >
>
Ostensibly Perl 6 is meant to be a language ready for the next hundred years.
As such, I am wondering where either Perl 6 or its implementations have
hard-coded limits based on current or projected hardware limitations, or where
they don't.
Examples of what I would like to know, do any