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Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> wrote:
>Do you use arithmetic on IPv6 addresses?)

Yes.  Generally bitwise and/or/xor, so it's not all that inconvenient
to use an array of char/short/int/long, but there's the problem: which
is more efficient?  If a processor has native instructions to perform
these operations on 64 bit values, it would be ludicrous to handle an
IPv6 address one character at a time.  Conversely, on a 16-bit machine
it would be inefficient (though less so) to have the compiler simulate
32- or 64-bit arithmetic and then to simulate 128-bit operations over
the top of that.

>There is no need to have integral types that are required to have
>more than 64 bits.

"640K ought to be enough for anyone."

-zefram