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This comment can be reused when int64 is forced to change into int128 or int255 in the future.
by ipaddr 1y ago
This comment can be reused when int64 is forced to change into int128 or int255 in the future.
- eadmund 1y agoJust use bignums. Seriously, a decent type system can use smaller representations for efficiency and not accidentally break the world. That way, one can represent the numbers found in cryptography as … numbers, instead of opaque Base64- or (God help one) ASN.1-encoded byte sequences. Machine words are an efficiency hack.