>By giving programmers a choice of number types, programmers are required to waste their time making choices that don’t matter. Even worse, making a bad choice

>By giving programmers a choice of number types, programmers are required to waste their time making choices that don’t matter. Even worse, making a bad choice can lead to a loss of accuracy or destructive bugs. So why not use BigDecimal? It's too slow? So performance is a reasonable selection criterion? But not performance of million ints vs a million DEC64s? o_0