* Niko Tyni: > The benefits are obviously improved numeric range and precision. The > downside is presumably increased memory usage. I have no measurement > data on this; suggestions on suitable tests would be welcome.
I have run into several incompatibilities between i386 and amd64 due to different Perl integer sizes, so I'm definitely in favor of 64-bit integers. I'm not sure if long doubles are a win. The rest of the world runs on 64 bit floating point numbers, so this would introduce additional incompatibilities. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq73u1mo....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
