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> 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.

Wait, we don't and it has.



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