24 Sep 01:13
Re: fixed point type
From: Masha Rabinovich <masharabinovich@...>
Subject: Re: fixed point type
Newsgroups: gmane.os.inferno.general
Date: 2008-09-23 23:13:28 GMT
Subject: Re: fixed point type
Newsgroups: gmane.os.inferno.general
Date: 2008-09-23 23:13:28 GMT
Nothing serious, it is just convenient to have it in language with ability to switch to 64bit and back easily.
Sometimes temporary values of computation do not fit in 64bit.
That's why people like Python :)
Sometimes temporary values of computation do not fit in 64bit.
That's why people like Python :)
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM, C H Forsyth <forsyth-VZPH4yCFGSyB+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
we haven't really had many applications that needed them,
outside their existing use in cryptosystems.
so much so, that although it might have been better to have
moved them out of the Keyring module for the 4th edition
(when enough other signatures also changed), we didn't do that in the end,
because it didn't seem worthwhile.
calculating national debts from now on might prompt a reassessment.
more seriously, what had you in mind?
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From: "Masha Rabinovich" <masharabinovich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: inferno-list-VZPH4yCFGSyB+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:18:35 +0000
Subject: Re: [inferno-list] fixed point type
ok
and what about adding the infinite integers ?
it in your plans, isn't it ?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:46 PM, C H Forsyth <forsyth-VZPH4yCFGSyB+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>or to compile calls to C-library.
>
> we wanted them where the JIT could see them.
>
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