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		kg on Aug 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6 Signed/unsigned 64-bit integers are on the agenda, but I think they are planned for ES7. They're being prototyped in SpiderMonkey right now.

rpedela on Aug 19, 2013 [–]

That is great to hear! Of course if ES7 takes another 10 years...

kg on Aug 19, 2013 | [–]

I'm as impatient as you are :) Emulating 64-bit integers is pretty slow in modern runtimes...

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