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Tinine
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Posted: 02:58pm 13 May 2016

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Gotta be a bit of a memory hog, no?

Really starting to like this stuff, mind.

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Posted: 04:53pm 13 May 2016

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Hello. Welcome to the forums.

I am no expert, but as I understand it, the 64-bit integer support is just for those who need or want to work with such gigantic numbers directly without having to work with floating point or exponents. As far as I know, it is just a personal preference option that Geoff has put in the language so that if you want to work with large numbers easily, that is probably the way to do it. As to memory use, I have no idea, but I expect it can't be that horrific, or Geoff would not have agreed to do it. Someone with more knowledge then I will chime in with the correct answer for you, I'm just offering my thoughts.

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Posted: 06:44pm 13 May 2016

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Many times we were looking for 32 bit unsigned integers.
Having 64 bit signed lets us work with 32 bit unsigned easily without the need for too many types to worry about.

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Posted: 11:43pm 13 May 2016

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Have a look at -

http://www.thebackshed.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7336&KW=64+bit+integer

Tinine
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Posted: 01:05pm 14 May 2016

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Grogster said Hello. Welcome to the forums.

As to memory use, I have no idea, but I expect it can't be that horrific, or Geoff would not have agreed to do it. Someone with more knowledge then I will chime in with the correct answer for you, I'm just offering my thoughts.

Thanks for the welcome, it's a great place to visit

So, just to have say, a flag of 1 or 0, I have no option but to use 8 bytes?

I guess I can get a whole bunch of flags out of one variable using AND/NOT/OR.

You guys have any other speed/size optimization tricks?

Cheers!

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Posted: 02:31pm 14 May 2016

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Well, you have a lot of RAM. Enough for over six thousand integer flags and if you use a float as your flag you get over twelve thousand without even using AND/NOT/OR.

That must be enough

Quote You guys have any other speed/size optimization tricks?

The Micromite is about ease of programming, not tricky programming. Try using it in a few practical applications and you will find that you have plenty of resources.

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Geoffg said Try using it in a few practical applications and you will find that you have plenty of resources.
Geoff

Yeah, I'm definitely hooked. Don't have hardware yet but for the first time since I don't when, I actually RTFM

Great product Geoff. Many thanks!

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