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Comment by jsheard

It's a bit strange that it got BigInt before Int64, for most applications 64 bits are plenty and arbitrary precision arithmetic is just needless overhead. Maybe a sufficiently smart JS engine could deduce that a BigInt can't exceed 2^64 and lower it to native 64 bit math, but that kind of magic is hard to rely on.
parent jsheard 4 years ago

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