alt Hacker NewsStoring numbers as arrays of u8? That doesn't make sense
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lxgr • yesterday at 1:36 PM
It makes a lot of sense if you value correctness over performance.
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Storing numbers as arrays of u8? That doesn't make sense
It makes a lot of sense if you value correctness over performance.
For JSON serialization, which doesn't support fixed-point precision it does.
Floating-point precision has too many gotchas for being suitable to store Decimal types, especially for the Currency use case.