None, except you end up jumping through hoops to implement 128 bit arithmetic efficiently or cleanly. At some point language support for such a basic operation is the simplest and clearest solution.
On 26 Sep. 2017 17:25, "Andrew Haley" <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 26/09/17 11:20, Peter Lawrey wrote: > > We have arrays already but we don't have primitive types of more than > > 64-bit. If we had uint128 for example we wouldn't need this method. > > Perhaps not, but why is needing this method a problem? > > -- > Andrew Haley > Java Platform Lead Engineer > Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> > EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671 >
