On 21/04/14 16:08, John Cowan wrote: > Bear scripsit: > >> I'd object if the standard required more than 65536 bit >> representations or allowed smaller than 60-bit representations for >> exact integers. > > I think 32-bit software is still important, even if 32-bit hardware > is rapidly becoming scarce. I'm reluctant in 2014 to build a 64-bit > assumption into the standard yet.
There's an awfully large number of 32-bit ARM processors around, and they're important targets for software (mobile phones and raspberry Pis and all sorts of embedded systems). So I think we can assume that 32-bit hardware is a lower bound, but nothing more. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
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