Re: PDD 4: Internal data types

[Hong Zhang]

For bigint, we definite need a highly portable implementation.
People can do platform specific optimization on their own later.
We should settle the generic implementation first, with proper
encapsulation.

Hong

> >Do we need to settle on anything - can it vary by platform so that 64 bit
> >platforms can use 64 bit, in which case the 32/31 choice could even be by
> >platform (or always 32 if we find it works well)