Message 404733 - Python tracker

Message404733

Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	Beier Liu, mark.dickinson, paul.moore, scoder, serhiy.storchaka, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2021-10-22.09:17:33
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This should probably be a separate issue, but I wonder whether the 15-bit digit option has value any more. Should we just drop that option and always use 30-bit digits? 30-bit digits were introduced at a time when we couldn't rely on a 64-bit integer type always being available, so we still needed to keep the 15-bit fallback option. But I think that's no longer the case.

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This should probably be a separate issue, but I wonder whether the 15-bit digit option has value any more. Should we just drop that option and always use 30-bit digits? 

30-bit digits were introduced at a time when we couldn't rely on a 64-bit integer type always being available,  so we still needed to keep the 15-bit fallback option. But I think that's no longer the case.

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