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Re:BigInt is finally here in ES2020 by Caligatio on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:58AM (#26304877)
I maintain a JavaScript hashing library and the language's handling of large integers is terrible. SHA-256/SHA-384/SHA-512 as well as SHA-3 all use 64-bit primitives so I need to do some hacks to emulate a 64-bit integer. Bit shifting large numbers gets even more nebulous...
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Re:BigInt is finally here in ES2020 by MaxBarraclough on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:16PM (#26305164)
Do you know if moving to BigInt would cause performance issues?
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