At 2:48 PM -0800 2/16/03, Julian Elischer wrote:
I think I could make a case for these figures being extended
to 64 bits but:
1/ is it worth it? what uses them? Easier to drop them.
2/ are these mandated by any standard? would making them
64 bits break anything?
3/ would 64 bits be enough? We are getting both bigger and
faster 64000 times faster and 64000 times bigger and we
are back at seven seconds. 640 times faster and 640 times
bigger and we are still only at 70000 seconds (19 hours)
before overflow.
When we're at only 400 times faster and 400 times bigger, we
can always decide to increase it again...
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