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.
On 26 Sep. 2017 11:31, "Andrew Haley" <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 26/09/17 08:25, Peter Lawrey wrote: > > I am looking forward to intrinsic support for 128 bit math using ?Long2? > > and XMM (or even YMM, ZMM) instructions. > > This is the best way forward, I hope. > > > > Personally I would like to see a long long type, or even uint128, > uint256, > > uint512 style notation. > > > > Another option might be something like long<128> or an annotation like > > @uint128 long or even @decimal128 double but who knows. > > Do you actually need any of that? I think vector types make more sense. > Java already has a great many scalar types. > > -- > Andrew Haley > Java Platform Lead Engineer > Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> > EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671 >
