On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:59 PM, John Adams <j...@twitter.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 31, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Josh Roesslein wrote: > > Well 64 bit should last for a while. Curious how long it will be until 128 >> bit will be required. >> > > > > Mathematica tells me: > "Fri 24 Sep 58821 22:55:00" > > I think you'll be fine for a long time at 64 bit. > > -john > > --- > John Adams > Twitter Operations > j...@twitter.com > http://twitter.com/netik > > > > > but why not go with 128 bit decimal/floating point precision datatypes to begin with, and never have this issue? if anyone says "overhead" I'm gonna whack 'em like a popup weasel. in this day and age of CPU cycles and RAM, you might as well go big or go home. --ab
