here was no such code in the standard repository.
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<h3 id="rune">The rune type</h3>

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The language spec allows the <code>int</code> type to be 32 or 64 bits wide, but current implementations set <code>int</code> to 32 bits even on 64-bit platforms.
It would be preferable to have <code>int</code> be 64 bits on 64-bit platforms.
(There are important consequences for indexing large slices.)
However, this change would waste space when processing Unicode characters with
the old language because the <code