From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-01-13T10:05:53+09:00
Subject: Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number

Hi,

In message "Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number"
    on 04/01/13, Charles Mills <boson@cyberspace.org> writes:

|What abouts Rubys design would make integer arithmetic slower than integer
|arithmetic in Perl?

Perl uses float value for integer arithmetic, where Ruby uses Bignums
(arbitrary precision integer) for integer arithmetic out of range
2^31.  Unfortunately 1073741823+1073741824 is bigger than 2^30,
maximum positive fixed sized integer value that calculate quick.

							matz.