Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Number, Integer and ad_form checks

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Posted by Don Baccus on
"number" is implemented via BCD, so arithmetic and comparisons are much slower than for "integer". Because "integer" is stored in the machine's native binary format, 32-bit for most machines today, with 64-bit integers making headway.

You would add the range checks for integer to the template form engine's VALIDATE proc for the integer type ...