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Nice. Still, it's unsettling that they've confounded address space size with integral type width.
by mgraczyk 12y ago
Nice. Still, it's unsettling that they've confounded address space size with integral type width.
- dragonwriter 12y agoAvailable RAM (something 8GB plausibly could refer to, unlike address-space size) is arguably more relevant to the issue here (which is the desirability of not using fixed-width integers and floating point but instead preferring arbitrary-precision rational numbers as the default.)
- shriramkmurthi 12y agoThat is indeed our point. Thanks for explaining it!