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Why int16 for numbers? #41

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nitwhiz opened this issue May 26, 2019 · 1 comment
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Why int16 for numbers? #41

nitwhiz opened this issue May 26, 2019 · 1 comment

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nitwhiz commented May 26, 2019 •
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Isn't js using up to 50ish bits for numbers?
All bit-operations use 32 bit, so why not int32?
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because the main goal of this project is to support low power microcontrollers, and there are some 16-bit microcontrollers out there that don't support 32 bit numbers at all. JavaScript of course operates mainly on 32-bit numbers (and 64-bits are also supported in later versions of standard).

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