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: bignum branch Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:01:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o9fbbw1t.fsf@tromey.com> <87bmbbmslt.fsf@gmail.com> <877elzmpjk.fsf@gmail.com> <83va9jcpfk.fsf@gnu.org> <83sh4ncoye.fsf@gnu.org> <87601j5lx2.fsf@gmail.com> <83o9fbckik.fsf@gnu.org> <86muuscvj8.fsf@gmail.com> <878t69g2cg.fsf@gmail.com> <83efg17mao.fsf@gnu.org> <874lgxfx8p.fsf@gmail.com> <7f85efd2-b13f-2866-c0be-2e8ac46e8a64@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531875600 23968 195.159.176.226 (18 Jul 2018 01:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:00:00 +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 Wed Jul 18 02:59:56 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 1ffaor-00066m-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:59:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffaqx-0000qh-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffaqk-0000qP-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffaqh-0000lg-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35459 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffaqh-0000iT-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ffaoV-0005oY-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:59:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9by/xAl7KiAImOzNNkK5kX2jGyw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:227526 Archived-At: > I wonder if a file- or dir-local variable to tell the interpreter and the > byte-compiler whether to use fixnums would make sense. It would be akin to > lexical-binding: t. I think this would be quite expensive to implement compared to the expected benefit. Stefan