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Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:42:39 -0400 |
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> Of course we could to do that. Hopefully there isn't existing
> Emacs Lisp code that relies on unsafe arithmetic /anywhere/. If the
> functions + - * / operate on bignums (instead of dedicated bignum
> functions), would that mean we drop 32/64 bit integers entirely?
To eliminate the current types for small integers would
require rewriting of much of the C code in Emacs.
It would be better to represent small integers as now,
and have a different structure for larger integers.
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- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth, 2018/04/21
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- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth, 2018/04/21
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/21
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Paul Eggert, 2018/04/21
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2018/04/25
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/25
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2018/04/27
- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/27
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- Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/04/22
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