> JavaScript is an "untyped" language, which is an advantage and a disadvantage. ... Based on your question, it is an advantage, because it doesn't matter if you have a 32bit system or a 64 bit system. max_int is the same!
I'm a Perl programmer, not a JS programmer. Would you mind explaining why the limits for a JS counter are the same for a 32-bit vs 64-bit OS? I would be eager to learn something new today by tapping into your wonder fount of wisdom. :) Perl comes in several variations: 16, 32, and 64-bit. Counter value limits are based on the lowest common denominator of the OS or Perl bit width. So running 16-bit Perl on a 32-bit OS would mean I'm still limited to 16-bit values via Perl. Perl only has 3 basic "types" but officially, it is untyped. It has the $a variables (called "scalar" variables), which can hold an integer, float, string or even a memory address (pointer). The other basic types are array and hash. So Perl has limits on the value of integers it can hold in $a scalar based on if Perl is 16, 32 or 64-bit. Which I found out the hard way using a vendor version of Perl which is 16-bit, where I found that I cannot read a 5GB Excel file into memory on a Windows Server 2012 machine with 32GB of RAM because the XLSX read routine must make a LOT of pointers as it expands the XLSX file into memory. (An XLSX file is actually a zip file with a bunch of stuff in it. So on average, just by unzipping the file, the file doubles in size.) Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0843d6d8-d398-4665-b2ac-636ad119abe8%40googlegroups.com.
