From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:12:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0f632217-27ad-4f54-8ce0-480301fa2a86@cs.ucla.edu> <83pnxorm37.fsf@gnu.org> <92915cae-21d5-c365-89f2-3a15fc9114c4@cs.ucla.edu> <83sh2jql9y.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536538846 17751 195.159.176.226 (10 Sep 2018 00:20:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:20:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 10 02:20:42 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 1fz9wX-0004XO-RP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:20:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fz9ye-0005QE-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fz9yO-0004nz-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fz9tE-00053c-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33830 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fz9tE-00052x-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fz9r5-0007Up-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:15:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:v6JUwfDUTnTD9H8hDr6eLBirAow= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:229580 Archived-At: >> AFAIK any Unicode codepoint fits in 22 (or even 21?) bits, and while we >> may use a few extra codepoints IIUC in some corner cases, it should all >> fit comfortably within our 28 bits of FIXNATs. > > Unicode codepoints have almost nothing to do with this, since nowadays I used Unicode as a reference of the magnitude that can be expected. While GB-10830 is larger than Unicode, it's not much larger (although we encode it into codepoints that are sparsely populated, thus needing all 32bits). Stefan