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Re: Turning misc objects into pseudovectors


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: Turning misc objects into pseudovectors
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:31:35 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

Paul> Bug#32405 contains a patch that will get rid of the
Paul> miscellaneous-object category of the Emacs Lisp interpreter, and will
Paul> change these objects to be pseudovectors instead. The motivation is to
Paul> simplify the interpreter and garbage collector and speed it up
Paul> slightly, and to simplify potential future changes.

This seems reasonable to me.  Do you plan to land it soon?
I am wondering if I should wait for this before merging bignum.
Currently bignums are implemented as misc types, not pseudovectors.

Tom



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