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Consider adding more functions to the standard library #20
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@jfbastien Do you have any thoughts on operations that should exist? Or should this be left to WASM? Or v2 of the BigInt library? |
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It seems useful, but maybe v2? I think you should have the same capabilities on integers which JS has at a minimum. Other things as you mention seem nice to have. wasm will have them in MVP but only for |
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We'll leave more functions for v2. |
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Should we have operations like popcount, find least/most significant bit set/unset? These could probably be implemented more efficiently as builtins using processor instructions than by the user. OTOH, maybe these are logically operations on memory (
ArrayBuffers?Uint8Arrays?) than on BigInts; I'm not sure. This was a suggestion from Waldemar HorwatThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: