Re: int128_t
Re: int128_t
- Subject: Re: int128_t
- From: "Sherm Pendley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:42:10 -0400
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<email@hidden> wrote:
Le 17 oct. 08 à 15:47, Sherm Pendley a écrit :
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:45 AM,
<email@hidden> wrote:
Maybe you were thinking of 128 bit long doubles ?
calculations and 'almost accurate' is not an option :-)
64 bit integers work great for that matter, but we like to step up to more bits
Don't bother. As Paul said, 64 bit is enough to represent any amount you're going to encounter in real life.
At least until we got generic processors that natively support 128 bits integers ;-)
The availability of 128-bit chips will not magically expand the world economy by thousands of orders of magnitude. Using 128-bit ints at that point will be a matter of convenience, not of necessity.
sherm--
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