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From: | Juliusz Chroboczek |
Subject: | Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion |
Date: | Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:31:47 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
> Adding real bignums probably would not be much more work than that. > So IF we decide to do work in that area, let's add real bignums. > GNU MP does the hard part. > However, I'd rather prioritize progress in computing horizontal > alignment and widths with variable-width fonts. That is something > we really need. I am tempted to argue that silently returning the wrong answer is a more serious (but admittedly less visible) issue than minor cosmetic limitations of the redisplay engine. But who am I to argue? -- Juliusz
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