Re: Thoughts on NBASE=100000000

2024-07-08 Thread Joel Jacobson
On Mon, Jul 8, 2024, at 12:45, Matthias van de Meent wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, 22:40 Joel Jacobson, wrote: >> Today, since 64-bit architectures are dominant, NBASE=1e8 seems like it would >> have been the best choice, since the square of that still fits in >> a 64-bit signed int. > > Back then

Re: Thoughts on NBASE=100000000

2024-07-08 Thread Matthias van de Meent
On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, 22:40 Joel Jacobson, wrote: > > Hello hackers, > > I'm not hopeful this idea will be fruitful, but maybe we can find solutions > to the problems together. > > The idea is to increase the numeric NBASE from 1e4 to 1e8, which could > possibly > give a significant performance boo