> Can someone describe to me, briefly, what is the purpose of these? I've
> been looking into it, and it seems to me that their v.portable and
> readable...what else?
They can conserve space, easier to work with than binary ones, if one
is corrupted, then the rest are still fine, etc, etc, etc.
> Also, what's the use of 128-bitvectors?
The way bitvectors work is that you can only have 32 of them (up to
1 << 31) before blowing the limit on unsigned long integers. That
means 32 affections. Most people seem to want more than that.
Ae.
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Erm... Yeah. Whatever.
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