From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:56:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <51e619e0-ee38-eb97-6c1d-0925b675290a@disroot.org> <55c1e23c-1b9d-1a95-c683-5bf453967c51@cs.ucla.edu> <87o9i67j1o.fsf@tromey.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524844543 3866 195.159.176.226 (27 Apr 2018 15:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 27 17:55:39 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 1fC5ik-0000t2-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:55:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5kq-0007z2-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5jH-0007Z6-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5jG-0001Zr-C9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5jB-0001XI-Eg; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5j9-0008OB-Re; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:56:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:33:50 -0400) 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:224923 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think Emacs should move in this direction: define `eq` to be the same > as `eql`, then check every use of EQ in the C code to see if it will > necessarily behave identically to "EQL" and where it doesn't, replace it > with EQL. This is a lot of work and will slow down some loops. I would rather try the obvious approach: eq treats bignums like floats. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.