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Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:01:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> 64-bit int support in Emacs should not require a 64-bit system.  If they
> are natively available it's faster, that's all.  It's not like you'd be
> packing and unpacking the bits directly.

Yeah.  Bignum support in Emacs would totally rock.  No more manual
conversions to floating point numbers to do safe-ish computations on
numbers that might be too big would be needed.

But I suspect that it's a kinda big project.  :-)

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




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