Re: [PATCH] Re: Bignum performance

[Po Lu]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Are we talking 1 word = 2 bytes = 16 bits here, s2c?
>
> If so, the range of fixnums are -32 768 to 32 767 inclusive,
> so those are hardly huge numbers.

Under Arm64, general purpose integer registers are 64 bits wide.  That
is also the word size of said machine.

I agree that vague terminology such as ``word'' is confusing, because of
its use by the Unix assembler.