[toraobo]

From the article:

> Picking an arbitrary limit less than 232 is certainly safer for many reasons, and very unlikely to impact real usage. We already have some real limits well below 106 (such as if/else depth and recursion limits).

> A range of -1,000,000 to 1,000,000 could fit in 21 bits and that three of those values could be packed into a 64-bit word.

In theory this could bring security and performance benefits. In practice if you claim to be limited by MAX_UINT you're likely to encounter issues if you try to close to that limit without very careful coding around overflow.

[m463]

If we lowered the speed limit of highways to 25 mph, we would prevent many highway deaths, and could narrow the lanes to fit 4 lanes where previously there were 3 lanes.

[vallode]

Extended reading on this? I found myself chuckling at the absurdity of this at first, and then kept reading finding out that this is actually quite a good idea. What topics would this come under? General compiler architecture?