On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The built-in reduce functions are executed in erlang, which has arbitrary precision for integers and 64-bit precision for floating point. Implementing the design document functions in Erlang would be one workaround, although it wouldn't be allowed on a hosted CouchDB server. On Jul 16, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Samuel Williams <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: it seems like a language with built in support for big integers would be ideal, e.g. Python, Ruby, rather than JavaScript. Both these languages are quite a bit slower than JavaScript, though, and performance is often a concern for view indexing. —Jens
