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Who needs 2^128 integers?
by baybal2 5y ago
Who needs 2^128 integers?
- sedatk 5y agoEvergreen comment, "2^128" being an arbitrary upper limit.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoIt opens up some very interesting possibilities and optimization options that you wouldn't normally ever consider. In any case, I think programmers of most languages wouldn't even need to care as all optimizations would be done by the teams working on the compilers/interpreters/VMs. Note that it's not just about integers, floating point would also benefit from this.
- mrlonglong 5y agoYou can use tagged pointers for memory protection.
- rowanG077 5y agoIt could speed up some crypto algorithms that use very large words.