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: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:32:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o9fbbw1t.fsf@tromey.com> <86in5jdj49.fsf@gmail.com> <83wotxaiwi.fsf@gnu.org> <86k1pxmvmx.fsf@gmail.com> <87efg4a9xc.fsf@tromey.com> <83d0voa6fw.fsf@gnu.org> <83va9f8cs5.fsf@gnu.org> <83k1pv8392.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531765832 23626 195.159.176.226 (16 Jul 2018 18:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:30:32 +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 Jul 16 20:30:28 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 1ff8GR-00061Q-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:30:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53211 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ff8IZ-0001GX-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:32:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ff8IS-0001GF-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ff8IP-0000fh-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57672 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ff8IP-0000f0-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ff8GD-0005m7-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:30:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:svt7YjctAEoD7v3T8nCyZozTVgk= 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:227479 Archived-At: > That's what I'd expect as well, and so I don't think --with-wide-int > will die too quickly. Not in the near future, no. For that reason I just said "eventually". > I personally need to use buffers larger than > 0.5GB all the time on my daytime job. Is that on 32bit systems (i.e. using wide-int)? Do these rarely exceed the 2GB limit? By "use" I assume you mean also "edit", right? Stefan