I'd use left and right shift. I don't know how this would benchmark (and I don't have the time or energy to try ;) against your version, but this looks cleaner, at least to me. 

sub pack64bit {
    my $i = new Math::BigInt shift();
    my $j = new Math::BigInt $i->brsft(32);
    my $k = $i - $j->blsft(32);
    return pack('NN', $j, $k);
}

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Mine (as well as yours) will break if something unexpected is passed.

Update:Anonymous Monk, otherwise known as frankied noticed that this breaks for negative numbers.

Something bothered me anyway about using Math::BigInt to manipulate bits, so I did a rewrite using Bit::Vector:

 
sub pack_bv{
  use Bit::Vector;
  my $vec = Bit::Vector->new_Dec(64, shift);
  return pack 'NN', $vec->Chunk_Read(32, 32), $vec->Chunk_Read(32, 0);
}

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This one looks even cleaner - and better yet, it works!

In reply to Re: pack 64 bit int ? by jsprat
in thread pack 64 bit int ? by frankied

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