Yes, it's not in the spec but are there ways and means to change this? Will Javascript be stuck forever with 51/52/53 bits?
It would be great if V8 could support proper native 64-bit integers and perhaps encourage other engines to do the same. Especially with the ubiquity of 64-bit elsewhere. It hampers common use cases, e.g. hashing, compression. On 27 Jul 2012, at 2:50 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Joran Greef <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it be possible to have proper support for native 64-bit integers and > operations in Javascript? > > JS as a language does not specify them. It specifies a Number type and (IIRC) > 51 (52? 53?) bits of integer precision. > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > > > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
