On 2012-04-25, at 12:09 PM, Strake wrote: > This. A limit on cryptography, physical simulation, ... > which are computation-bound, so bignum arithmetic would be slow. > > Also logical memory addresses, timestamps, ...
Don't vlongs cover this? Perhaps the physical simulation example would like 64 bit addressing, but sparse arrays could be a viable alternative. > Oh, and 8 registers are far too few. Unless you're writing assembler, the compilers hide that. Anyway, I was just curious to see what specific real case you had for needing 64 bits. Proprietary considerations often get in the way of that. --lyndon
