From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More over-engineering Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:13:26 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <565A3516.5000001@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448752437 17223 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2015 23:13:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Stefan Monnier , =?UTF-8?Q?Aur=c3=a9lien_Aptel?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 29 00:13:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a2ogV-00064S-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:13:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2ogY-0005yk-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:13:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43782) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2ogU-0005yU-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2ogQ-0003Ka-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:59647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2ogQ-0003KG-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE793160DFC; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:13:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id MzOWNArVrQV7; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:13:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C953160E2A; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:13:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id d3Ja8Qt_URDR; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:13:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E1B5160DFC; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:13:32 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195494 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > The only advantage in this respect is that the representation of > Lisp_Object is encapsulated inside Emacs core, so the same module can be > used with a "emacs-32bit-narrow-int" and on "emacs-32bit-wide-int". > The cost for that minor advantage seems way out of proportion. I agree. Although I'm a fan of --with-wide-int, I don't think it should force this extra complication in modules. People who want Emacs with wide ints can build modules to suit. This is the same as 32- vs 64-bit off_t, in traditional C libraries.