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Add a benchmark, and amend the relevant source code comment to state
that currently, switching to directly returning a BigInt is not
stopped by technical obstacles but rather the fact that using a typed
array is actually a bit faster (about 2.5 %, measured locally).

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Add a benchmark, and amend the relevant source code comment to state
that currently, switching to directly returning a BigInt is not
stopped by technical obstacles but rather the fact that using a typed
array is actually a bit faster (about 2.5 %, measured locally).
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addaleax commented Mar 5, 2019

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@addaleax addaleax deleted the hrtime-bigint-benchmark branch March 5, 2019 22:24
addaleax added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 5, 2019
Add a benchmark, and amend the relevant source code comment to state
that currently, switching to directly returning a BigInt is not
stopped by technical obstacles but rather the fact that using a typed
array is actually a bit faster (about 2.5 %, measured locally).

PR-URL: #26381
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]>
BridgeAR pushed a commit to BridgeAR/node that referenced this pull request Mar 12, 2019
Add a benchmark, and amend the relevant source code comment to state
that currently, switching to directly returning a BigInt is not
stopped by technical obstacles but rather the fact that using a typed
array is actually a bit faster (about 2.5 %, measured locally).

PR-URL: nodejs#26381
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]>
BethGriggs pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 16, 2019
Add a benchmark, and amend the relevant source code comment to state
that currently, switching to directly returning a BigInt is not
stopped by technical obstacles but rather the fact that using a typed
array is actually a bit faster (about 2.5 %, measured locally).

PR-URL: #26381
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]>
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