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

Thoughts on NBASE=100000000

2024-07-07 Thread Joel Jacobson
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 boost of all operations across the board, on 64-bit architectures, fo