> Sensible?! Hahahaha! This has to be comedy. They are bigint-encoding identifiers? There is no sane reason to do this. This fixed machine-width type of charac

> Sensible?! Hahahaha! This has to be comedy. They are bigint-encoding identifiers? There is no sane reason to do this. This fixed machine-width type of character encoding isn't unheard of. For example, Windows uses tags of this size to identify chunks of memory associated with drivers: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff544520(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...