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Disable num-bigint-dig/u64_digit feature on wasm targets #252

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WebAssembly doesn't have 128-bit integers, so on wasm targets LLVM implements 128-bit multiplies with a libcall to __multi3. That's slower than just doing arithmetic on smaller units.

I patched the rsa crate to remove the u64_digit feature from the num-bigint-dig dependency, and tested the patched version with the blind-rsa-signatures crate. The toy demo app I tested ran 15% faster under Wasmtime with this patch.

It would be nice if either this crate or num-bigint-dig would automatically determine what limb size to use based on the build target. Barring that, perhaps this crate should expose its own u64_digit feature that forwards to num-bigint-dig.

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