Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: gah4 Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Integer sizes and DFAs Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 17 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <22-03-075@comp.compilers> References: <22-03-073@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="45749"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: performance, comment Posted-Date: 27 Mar 2022 12:17:34 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <22-03-073@comp.compilers> Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2969 On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 4:42:55 PM UTC-7, Christopher F Clark wrote: (snip) > Now, I just looked up the size of the human genome. it is 3 billion, > so that's a little more than another order or magnitude bigger, so you > definitely need slightly bigger integers Note also that there are some larger genomes, such as the Japanese flower, Paris japonica at about 150 terabase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_japonica We do like to think that we are the most special species, but it seems that in genome size, we aren't the winner. [Unless we have have some new way to apply DFAs to genomes, this seems to be wandering away from our toptic. -John]