(How are safe and sandboxed related to bigint support (the garbage collected angle is clear)? Is it just a "why stop there" thing?)
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Use the upper bits of the integer to say whether it’s a small int or a pointer to a big int. If it’s a big int, ops have to allocate them on the heap, so some scheme is needed to track and free them. If refcounting, then all int creation/destruction is costly.
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