From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 32405@debbugs.gnu.org, Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Turning misc objects into pseudovectors
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:31:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736vn8pso.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <988905f1-fb41-9559-300d-d015bda4b791@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:07:30 -0700")
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
Paul> Bug#32405 contains a patch that will get rid of the
Paul> miscellaneous-object category of the Emacs Lisp interpreter, and will
Paul> change these objects to be pseudovectors instead. The motivation is to
Paul> simplify the interpreter and garbage collector and speed it up
Paul> slightly, and to simplify potential future changes.
This seems reasonable to me. Do you plan to land it soon?
I am wondering if I should wait for this before merging bignum.
Currently bignums are implemented as misc types, not pseudovectors.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-09 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-09 3:07 Turning misc objects into pseudovectors Paul Eggert
2018-08-09 16:31 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-08-09 17:22 ` bug#32405: " Paul Eggert
2018-08-09 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 13:43 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-12 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 19:11 ` Paul Eggert
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