8 Feb
2008
8 Feb
'08
11:22 p.m.
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
You mean, as the digits? You would have to rewrite the entire long datatype, which is a tedious exercise. Plus, I believe you would have to make some operations 64-bit on all systems: when you multiply digits today, the product will be 32-bit. If you extend the digits, you might get 64-bit results, which will be slow on 32-bit systems (plus some 32-bit systems don't support a 64-bit integer type at all in their compilers).
I pass! :) It may be worth a try for Python 4.0 when most OS are 64bit. Christian