Re: Mathematica 8: first impressions
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- Subject: [mg114208] Re: Mathematica 8: first impressions
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:36:21 -0500 (EST)
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On 26/11/10 10:28, Daniel Lichtblau wrote: > > Actually I would like to see native support for 64 bit integers e.g. in packed arrays. It will take more memory in the case of small integers, but also improve performance for integer linear and polynomial algebra. I think the improvement would be worth the added memory consumption. Granted, for some purposes this might just be added memory use for no gain. > > I'd say the same about quad precision for hardware floating point arithmetic, except it does not appear to be looming on the near term horizon, in terms of general vendor support. > > Daniel Lichtblau > Wolfram Research > Could you support packed arrays of 64-bit integers as a special case without doubling the size of all machine integers. If you doubled the size of all machine integers, I imagine that could impact badly on a lot of user software. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk