Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript

Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by taeric on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:49PM (#26472789)

Apologies, I should have acknowledged there are ways to get around that today. My guess is most folks writing javascript are not aware of BigInt. And will only become so when it bites them.

Granted, this is also true of fixednum in common lisp. At least "biting you" with that should only be performance. (I can't think of many other ways for that one to get you.)

Edit: I should further ack that "getting around" it is as simple as adding "n" to one of the constants. So, it is nicely done.

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by eddieh on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:45AM (#26473439)

I don’t think I’ve seen BigInt in the wild Wild West of JS at all, so that’s probably true that most folks are not aware of it.

I wonder if there’s some room for improvement since using GMP is pretty standard for most languages.

Edit: forgot to link to a BigInt comparison in major language implementations http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2014/10/20/the-fastest-bigint-...

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