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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit unsigned integer?
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On 01/03/2018 09:16, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> Following the trend set by recent Ada standard extensions, there could 
> be a "bounded" version of the "bignum" library.

That replaces unpredictable penalty with a predictably prohibitive one. 
Shuffling arrays of machine words for each arithmetic operation is a 
non-starter.

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