On Jan 15, 2:40 am, Armando Blancas <armando_blan...@yahoo.com> wrote: > They used to give you compile switches for that kind of stuff, not > hope and wholesome wishes. Seems like every performance improvements > makes the language more complex, uglier or both. >
I don't feel strongly about integer limits at all and am always surprised when this comes up. I did scientific programming on a 32 bit platform for several years and never met anyone who hit big problems with fixed size integers. For illustration, Long.max is: 9 223 372 036 854 775 807 which is so much bigger than I was used to. I know encryption requires BigInteger but I have yet to see a native clojure encryption library. It would help people like me understand the debate if some mainstream examples of applications requiring (seamless) BigInteger support could be identified. Saul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
