Is JSBI faster or more precise than peterolson's BigInteger.js? A lot of devs should move to a new BigInt library and we need motivation. JSBI uses new syntax i.e. JSBI.add(max, other) vs bigInt(5).add(7).times(2).
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BigInteger.js predates the BigInt proposal. JSBI was designed to match the spec, and its API is designed to be easily transpilable. I’ll let
@JakobKummerow speak to its performance characteristics. - 7 more replies
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The article explains why that’s not feasible.
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Any browsers besides Chrome support BigInt yet? I submitted an initial PR to caniuse with just Chrome but the data is "pending review" stillhttps://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/pull/4574 …
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It’s just Chrome for now, but I hear Firefox is close to shipping the SpiderMonkey BigInt implementation!
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Is there a similar proposal for BigDecimal?
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backwards-compatible: works in today’s browsers
future-proof: once BigInts are supported everywhere, you can drop the library + use our transpiler to upgrade your code from JSBI → BigInt