in reply to Re: More 64-bit Perl bugs?
in thread More 64-bit Perl bugs?

That's a neat, 'sideways-look' solution to the problem.

Except that I need to allocate > 4GB which means it'd just move the goalposts.

I agree that by moving to (say) 8-bit unit size, would get me to 16 GB, but my target is 64 GB, which would require 10 bits, which means moveing to 16-bit unit size. At that point, I'd probably be better off treating the vector as an array of 64-bit units.

The big loss is the convenience of the lvalue sub.

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