Re: PDD 4: Internal data types

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:03 PM 3/8/2001 -0800, Hong Zhang wrote:

>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.

Care to start one? I'm about to start the big To Do list of stuff.

> > >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)


                                        Dan

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