Re: bignum branch

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/17/2018 10:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I don't understand why this is needed, given that Tom published a
> proposed solution for the issue.  If you are bothered by possible
> run-time penalty for LP64 systems, we can use compile-time checks
> instead of run-time checks.

It's mostly a performance concern on 32-bit platforms. But if nobody 
else cares about performance on 32-bit platforms, I'll stop worrying 
too. I haven't used them in years, except for porting tests.