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On Thursday, October 25, 2007 Mike Pall wrote: 

> Q: Is 32 bit bitwise arithmetic (using the standard number type)
>    sufficient or would you rather have fixed length bitvectors
>    (heap allocated)? Or both?

32 bits is good enough for most of my uses.

Please include both signed and unsigned field extraction as per my
plea (rant?) at http://lua-users.org/wiki/BitwiseOperators

Mike, Thank you for your superb work on LuaJIT. It is a fine piece of
engineering, and has been very useful for me.

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-- 
Doug Currie
Londonderry, NH, USA