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28 wasted bits in a symbol
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Richard Stallman |
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28 wasted bits in a symbol |
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Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:30:54 -0700 (MST) |
I see that 4 bits of flags have been added to a symbol, making it a
whole word longer. That is a significant price to pay and I wonder if
there are alternatives. It is clear that indirect_variable could be
replaced with some Lisp_Misc special data type stored in the value slot.
Maybe the other 3 flags can be avoided too.
I think we should make an effort to eliminate these bits and reduce
the size by a word. Can people please look for ways to do it?
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