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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch |
| Date: | Sun, 19 Aug 2018 18:33:47 -0700 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
the time to lookup up a GMP number in a hash table basically should never be longer than the time it took to construct this number in the first place
Doesn't a similar argument apply to the cost of construcing an Lisp float (including memory allocation)? If we hashed floats as well as bignums, eq==eql would be trivial.
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