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Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer |
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Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:15:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Leo <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2010-09-10 15:01 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> 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. :-)
>
> GNU already has http://gmplib.org/. Would love to see it linked in too ;)
Let me just quote a random line from the Emacs sources:
int nbytes = XINT (length);
And then think about what you'd have to do to make Emacs support random
precision arithmetic. It makes me swoon just to contemplate. :-)
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address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
- Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/09
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/09
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/09
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/09
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/09/09
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Leo, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/10
- bignums (was: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer), Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Andreas Schwab, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, David Kastrup, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/11