[swift-evolution] Arbitrary-sized integers

[Félix Cloutier]

I know that one, but I merely need fixed-size big integers. Backing all of my integers with an array seems overly expensive.

Félix

> Le 14 juin 2016 à 23:25:16, T.J. Usiyan <griotspeak at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> There is also a fairly robust implementation of arbitrary size integers here https://github.com/lorentey/BigInt/tree/master/Sources <https://github.com/lorentey/BigInt/tree/master/Sources>
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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> 128-bit Ints have been discussed here a few weeks ago:
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> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160523/018957.html <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160523/018957.html>
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>> On Jun 15, 2016, at 5:50 AM, Félix Cloutier via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> I'm writing a program that would need Int128s. Since Swift uses LLVM and LLVM has good support for arbitrary-sized integers (well, up to 2^24 bits anyways), I was wondering if there was any interest in having arbitrary-sized integers in Swift.
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>> Félix
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