Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work1) now available

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 09/07/2013 17.45, Joseph Manning wrote:
> 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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> Joseph Manning / Computer Science / UCC Cork Ireland / manning@cs.ucc.ie
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Ah! I missed that. Of course this is a definite improvement for some 
applications.

-- Lorenzo

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