On Sun, 21 Sept 2025 at 17:09, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> Is there a greater-than-zero chance we could want to modernizing numeric
> for 64-bit hardware, even if it would require a change to its internals?
I can't quite speak to the proposal for differentiating the two
different on-disk formats, but
On Mon, Jul 8, 2024, at 13:42, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> 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 squar
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
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
