Do we need an unsigned multiplyHigh?

[Peter Lawrey]

We have arrays already but we don't have primitive types of more than
64-bit. If we had uint128 for example we wouldn't need this method.

On 26 Sep. 2017 11:31, "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 26/09/17 08:25, Peter Lawrey wrote:
> > I am looking forward to intrinsic support for 128 bit math using ?Long2?
> > and XMM (or even YMM, ZMM) instructions.
> > This is the best way forward, I hope.
> >
> > Personally I would like to see a long long type, or even uint128,
> uint256,
> > uint512 style notation.
> >
> > Another option might be something like long<128> or an annotation like
> > @uint128 long or even @decimal128 double but who knows.
>
> Do you actually need any of that?  I think vector types make more sense.
> Java already has a great many scalar types.
>
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