From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:36:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7twy3j8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524324932 30365 195.159.176.226 (21 Apr 2018 15:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 15:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 17:35:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f9uXv-0007ny-NV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 17:35:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9ua2-0004hI-8m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9uZh-0004Wm-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9uZd-0006JM-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9uZd-0006Ij-Pb; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:37:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3141 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f9uZd-00047a-5W; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:37:13 -0400 In-reply-to: <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:23:33 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224764 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:23:33 -0700 > > Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth wrote: > > One approach would be to implement a minimal subset of functions > > exposed in Emacs Lisp that would allow one to recreate the following > > functions that are defined in calc.el : > > Surely we should just add bignum support to existing functions +, -, etc. Exactly my thoughts. > > With respect to floating points, though, things get a little hairy. > > This should be a separate task. Bignums alone are quite a large-enough project. > I'm not even sure we should do rationals. Right.