Re: LuaJIT 64 bit integers (was: the purpose of lightuserdata)

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Yes, I shudder to think of explaining that to users.  I was initially
> very excited to hear your announcement of 64-bit integer support since
> it's been a stumbling block for adoption of Lua inside Google where we
> have lots of 64-bit integers floating around, [...]

We have discussed in the list how to compile Lua to use long doubles so
that regular numbers can represent 64-bit integers. Isn't that enough
for you?

-- Roberto