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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work1) now available
- From: "Joseph Manning" <manning@...>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:45:28 +0100
On 2013-Jul-09 (Tue) at 17:23 (+0200), Lorenzo Donati wrote:
>> Just for curiosity: what is the rationale behind this version bump
>> with this new "int" transparent mechanism? It seems that it
>> complicates the innards of Lua a lot and appears useful mostly for
>> people working with some "float hostile" environments.
Lorenzo,
Well, if nothing else, it gives us direct support for integers
up to 2^63-1 rather than 2^53-1 ( assuming 64-bit ). To me at least,
this is a genuine benefit.
( wow ... over a THOUSAND times as many integers ... woo-hoo! )
Joseph
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