Unless you convey information to them, via higher level language constructs or compiler directives, it's not really fair to blame a compiler for making poor or

Unless you convey information to them, via higher level language constructs or compiler directives, it's not really fair to blame a compiler for making poor or conservative choices. Compilers can only infer or guess at what your intentions are. The author is banging on about uint128_t for example, and bashing library approaches like boost, but uint128_t isn't even part of the C or C++ standards. Its apples and oranges.