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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, tom@tromey.com, pipcet@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:53:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8361119-bd34-ec01-b0aa-d3fe30a74e33@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fsKML-0002Zn-8j@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman wrote:
> How does it do the job so fast?  Does it calculate the length of the
> list, then divide?

Yes, it computes modulo the list cycle length.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-22  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-11 19:47 Merging bignum to master Tom Tromey
2018-08-11 21:28 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-12 16:34   ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 12:21     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-14  0:21     ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 23:41       ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 15:38         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-19  8:26         ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-17 14:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12  6:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12  8:09   ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 17:21     ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12 18:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 19:30         ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13  0:15           ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 18:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 23:53       ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-13  0:20         ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13  7:51         ` Andreas Schwab
2018-08-13  8:06           ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13  9:14             ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 23:09               ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16  2:46                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-13 23:31         ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-14  1:41           ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16  2:41             ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-16 19:31               ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 22:02               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-12  7:37 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-12 18:21   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 11:48 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-12 16:02   ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 22:58   ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14  1:12     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-14 13:04     ` Pip Cet
2018-08-14 18:01       ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 15:20         ` Pip Cet
2018-08-15 16:17           ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 23:57           ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 22:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-20 16:28         ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Karl Fogel
2018-08-20 16:54           ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 17:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:27             ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 18:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 19:55                 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-20 23:15                   ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-21 15:01               ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size Tom Tromey
2018-08-21 16:36                 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-21 18:46                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 15:39                   ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-21  3:38             ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Richard Stallman
2018-08-21  4:09               ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22  4:03                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22  4:53                   ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-08-20 17:25           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14  0:51 ` Merging bignum to master Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 15:46 ` Andy Moreton

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