Thought experiment: coding with integers, rationals, and reals as proper subtypes, with reals as lazy continued fraction spigots.
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That would yield pervasive intrinsic bignum support with no cost when the numbers are small.
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sounds like v8 Smi as well? you'd use a trap there to escape an incompatible JIT fast case
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it would be nice to have bignums as built-in types where instructions operating on them would have var length
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this, of course, would need to support interrupts killing the instruction or some sensible upper bounds :)
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