The road to Longestlongerlinux (LLL™)
The road to Longestlongerlinux (LLL™)
Posted Sep 16, 2022 15:26 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: The road to Longestlongerlinux (LLL™) by tlamp
Parent article: The road to Zettalinux
can't we just have
int32
int64
int128
and, as a nod to those weird old architectures out there with 6 or 9 or whatever-bit bytes, those types are simply defined as the smallest power-of-two bytes that contain that number of bits.
Might be a bit wasteful of bits - the old ICL would need 16 6-bit bytes for an int64 (96 bits) - but then it probably doesn't have enough RAM for a program to want an int64 :-)
Move into the 21st century, guys :-), let history catch up if it wants to!
Cheers,
Wol
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