just agreed: try BigInt (name & suffix TBD, but L suffix is out) as alternative to Int64, @littledan among champions.
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It would also special-case moduli 2**32 and 2**64, for example.
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…so lot’s of special cases vs having few primitives?
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It's more general than special-casing (mod 2**64) as uint64_t or whatever.
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what matters to me is special cases in VM. Multiply them by number of different VMs...
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to get a full picture. One high-level JS library with int64 could do all of this, and..
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…wouldn’t have to be re-implemented everywhere
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we can always introduce int128 later, or even BigInts as a replacement for both
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