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Re: Reading portions of large files

From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Reading portions of large files
Date: 13 Jan 2003 08:55:36 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> > Hmmm?  I thought only boxed object had to have a mark bit, in which case
> > integers don't need one.  [Indeed, looking at the current garbage
> > collector, it doesn't seem to mark integers]
> 
> Oh wait, I was confused, it does need a mark-bit for cons cells...
> 
> Sorry for the noise...

Cons cells are not integers.  Care to explain for somebody dull?

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