Hi Andrea, very nice RFC!
You have added the new type internally only. Does it make sense or would it be possible to use one more internal type like "ULONG" to safe mem/cpu in such cases because bigint/GMP objects are used only on much higher numbers? Marc On 23.07.2014 00:12, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > On 22 Jul 2014, at 21:21, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> More seriously, UnsignedInt might go nicely alongside Andrea's BigInts… > > Bigints kinda remove the need for unsigned ints as you’d be able to use big > signed integers of any size. I also really don’t want unsigned int because it > makes integer semantics more confusing and you’re splitting integers into two > different kinds, unlike bigints which are an implementation detail (there is > still just one “integer” type) for the most part. > > I really, really don’t think this proposal is a good idea. > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
