On Monday, 12 June 2017 at 13:41:36 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
You misunderstood. We need cent/ucent supported by the compiler to get to larger integral types efficiently. There are no ways around it. There are a ton of operations such as the X86 MUL which are able to produce a large multiplication into 2 registers. There are no way to leverage these without compiler provided cent/ucent.
Agreed. But until larger types are natively avaliable (either by simulation built into the compiler or by hardware registers) you gotta work with what you got.
