John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:46:53 -0400, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The big question is whether being clever and producing the tightest >> type is worth the time to figure out what that type is, as well as >> the potentially uncertain output type.
> Tangentially related: will promotion be suitably delayed on systems with > support for 64-bit ints? More generally, what is the state-of/plan-for > "64-bit support" (whatever that may mean) in Parrot? I thought about that during BigInt hacking. It could be a nice optimization if we go: Int -> Int64 -> BigInt on 32-bit systems that have 64-bit integer support. OTOH it makes type promotion a bit more complicated and dependent on configuration settings. > -John leo
