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⚡ Why Integer no longer stores its value as a String

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  1. Kotools Types 5.2.0 changes its experimental Integer from a string-backed model to platform-specific arbitrary-precision numeric types.

  2. Arithmetic and comparisons now operate directly on numeric values, with parsing and formatting handled only at the boundaries.

  3. This improves performance and scalability for large-integer work by removing repeated string conversion overhead.

  4. The update also removes the runtime dependency on Kotlin/Native.

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