Brad,

> We definitely adopted the real(n)/int(n) syntax in Chapel with an eye 
> toward eventually supporting int(128) or real(128) or real(96) or the like 
> (which at the time we thought was much closer to being important than it's 
> turned out to be) or real(16), int(1), or the like going the other way.
[…]

Rust is getting ready for 128-bit integers and floats. Of course Fortran has
had it for decades. :-)

As for bit addressable memory, definitely a big issue on microcontrollers (at
least 20 years ago, I do not know now) but not so much an issue for Big
Computation.

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