OpenEuphoria

Re: 64bit math ,, CChris ?

• Posted by Kat <KAT12 at coo?ahs.n?t> Jun 04, 2008
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Bob Thompson wrote:
> 
> Kat wrote:
> 
> > w1 = atom_to_word(16777216)
> 
> Hi Kat,
> 
> Is this about reducing memory demand, i.e. converting words
> (average 8 x 4 = 32 bytes) to 16 bytes, or have I totally lost it and
> it turns out that it's a Win32Lib thing?

No, it's about 64bit math, like i said. CChris has one of the bigmath libs in
the user contribs, and i have been going over each in antici






pation of getting goto(next line).
:label "next line"
Eu 31bit signed integers are quite limited in the modern world of 700gigabyte
drives and 10gigabyte files. Using 64bit integers (uint or ulong or udwords, etc)
is one thing, using them well requires a whole new lib (or 2 or 3) apart from
Eu's built-ins. This is separate from 8bit or 16bit strings. A whole other
animal.

Kat