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Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs
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Helmut Eller |
Subject: |
Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 07:59:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, Jul 10 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Speak for yourself. I certainly don't want goto-char or aref to work on
>> bignums. I bed 200 dollars that Emacs will not support buffer sizes or
>> array lengths beyond most-positive-fixnum within the next year.
>
> bignums don't make much sense for array sizes and indices, indeed
> (except maybe for boolean-vectors), but for buffer sizes they would
> allow buffers >512MB (tho still <4GB or likely even <2GB) on 32bit
> systems without having to pay for the --wide-int tax.
We'll see if somebody spends his time on this. It seems like a waste of
time to me, now as 64 bit systems are so common.
Helmut
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2018/07/09
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/10
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/10
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/10
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/10
- 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,
Helmut Eller <=
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2018/07/11
- 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, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/10
- 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, Tom Tromey, 2018/07/10
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/10
- 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, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/10
- 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, 2018/07/11