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Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs
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Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:37:20 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> I still haven't looked at using the mpn_ API.
Paul> We need to do that before installing this in master, as Emacs must be
Paul> in charge of bignum storage allocation. But it isn't needed for a
Paul> first cut.
I looked into this a little.
The mpn API seems very hard to use. Using it would mean reimplementing
many of the functions provided by GMP.
On the other hand, I see that Guile is using the mpz API. So, maybe in
practice it is safe enough to just set custom allocation functions and
let them throw.
Tom
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/05
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, John Wiegley, 2018/07/05
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/06
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/06
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/07
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/07
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/07
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/07
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs,
Tom Tromey <=
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/09
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/09
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/09
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/09
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/10
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/10
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/08
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/09
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2018/07/10
Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2018/07/07