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Much faster? Compiler yourself a 64bit perl. 
$ perl -le 'print 0x0123456789ABCDEF'
81985529216486895

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Re^2: converting big hex to dec
by blazar (Canon) on Sep 27, 2005 at 12:02 UTC
    Hehe, indeed the first time I had access to one of the 64-bit machines our lab just bought you bet the first thing I did was 
    $ perl -le print~0

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    (not there now so I won't paste the output -- nor fake it!)
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[d/l]
      You don't need 64bit hardware to have 64bit integers in Perl.
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        I know. So what? (I would've /msg'd this to you instead than posting a reply, were you not Anonymous Monk.)
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