Re: 128bitvector

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 03/21/01


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Robert Masten wrote:

>> Changing it is easier now, but not impossible later.  Sooner or later
>you'll
>> run out of room in one of the bitvectors and you will have to figure out a
>> solution.
>
>Just for the sake of conversation, why hasn't the base circle code moved to
>bitvectors for aff, prf, mob, etc? And moved to long values for vnums?

Why move to bitvectors when you can move to a bitfield?

>Is this just a 'memory used' issue?

More of history and the fact room_vnum was our creation to get such a
migration done (or easy to do) in the future.

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