Walter Bright: > I think it's also important to make BigInt.sizeof == ulong.sizeof. To that > end, > you can use the least significant bit to mean "this is not a pointer", as in > a > 63 bit integer << 1.
Lot of time ago I have instead suggest BigInt.sizeof == size_t.sizeof, because in most programs you need integers smaller than 63 bit, 31 bits are enough. This increases the performance a little on 32 bit systems. Bye, bearophile
