A couple of years ago I wrote that I would be dropping support for perls with 32-bit integers in Number::Phone. Well, that two year deprecation cycle is up, and last night I switched over to the new database format, the software for which requires 64-bit integers. As of the next release it will use under 10MB of disk space instead of about 100. An order of magnitude improvement, and it was fun to write as well.
Perl has supported 64-bit integers on all reasonable platforms for the last 20 years, even on those platforms which still use 32-bit pointers, so I don't expect that anyone will notice any change at all except that their hosted Docker containers will now be faster to deploy and cheaper to run.
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