From:             phpbug at paypc dot com
Operating system: All
PHP version:      4.3.3
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Would like a 64-bit integer native type

Description:
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This is fairly straightforward.  Right now, native numeric types are
float/doubles and 32-bit integers.

Given that > 4GB of memory in a machine is affordable even for the home
consumer, it is important to be able to represent exact cardinal values
without any floating-point nonsense.

I don't know how much impact this would have the internals of Zend, or
performance for that matter.  Non-64-bit-native CPUs could probably adopt
optimisations to avoid having to do 64-bit operations on values /
expressions where the values are not expected to exceed 32 bits of value,
or perhaps, via "type-hinting" by the programmer.

I realise that "bcmath" stuff can handle an effectively infinitely large
integer value... but that's really a string-math subsystem with all of the
usual limitations (and performance costs).
 


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