> Using 64-bit integers is overkill, they will work till the year 584bln[1]
Yes because we have so little memory and so many timestamps to store that scrounging on the size of timestamps is highly important and absolutely not something which has been a pain in the ass half a dozen times in the short lifespan of computers.
Yes because we have so little memory and so many timestamps to store that scrounging on the size of timestamps is highly important and absolutely not something which has been a pain in the ass half a dozen times in the short lifespan of computers.
Wait, we don't and it has.