From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making --with-wide-int the default Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:56:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8qhg22y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56117F37.9060808@dancol.org> <83oag087gs.fsf@gnu.org> <83oafz70im.fsf@gnu.org> <5620AF43.4050401@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2qn6xfm.fsf@gnu.org> <5620B4FA.1000804@cs.ucla.edu> <83wptojs1r.fsf@gnu.org> <56444C66.8050506@gmx.at> <83r3jugx8g.fsf@gnu.org> <87io56nu0a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <831tbugsaa.fsf@gnu.org> <878u62nmkh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447441053 26146 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2015 18:57:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 18:57:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 19:57:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxJXG-0004yM-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:57:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxJXA-0006G0-Ns for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:57:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50891) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxJX5-0006Fs-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxJX4-0001JT-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:43502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxJWz-0001Iu-Rs; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXR00M00O9O2000@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:50:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXR00CO4OBLOU70@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:50:09 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878u62nmkh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194399 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, jwiegley@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:52:30 +0100 > > > I think the much large buffer size limit is more important than these > > considerations. (Your fears about decreasing the buffer size are > > unfounded: I actually tried using 1.5GB buffers, and it worked every > > time). > > "with several buffers loaded at once". Yes, with several buffers. > If buffer size was so much of a concern, we could represent integers > like XEmacs does (basically with a single tag bit), allowing for > buffers of 1GB size. We could, but we didn't. Instead, we have --with-wide-ints. > People wanting to edit files of several gigabyte size regularly will > not be using a 32-bit userland these days anyway. If you need to do that on a 32-bit system, you have no other choice.