From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:45:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83efepb3ir.fsf@gnu.org> References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <87lgaio7xd.fsf@tromey.com> <877em1cb0i.fsf@tromey.com> <765767b2-d2e5-a9a6-f724-d58ecf4847bb@cs.ucla.edu> <76081b5d-8c10-0a37-2c97-d4864c0faa80@cs.ucla.edu> <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83k1oldqao.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2irvk5f.fsf@gmail.com> <87efepqz4d.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535034002 8342 195.159.176.226 (23 Aug 2018 14:20:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 16:19:57 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 1fsqSr-00021x-45 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:19:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsqUx-0007I8-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fspva-0006h1-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fspvX-0006Ox-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fspvX-0006Ot-0P; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3328 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fspvW-0000Cs-KJ; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:45:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <87efepqz4d.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:13:38 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:228846 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:13:38 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > IIUC, such changes have already been applied to the Calc that's > > distributed with SXEmacs (where Calc's former maintainer moved), so it's > > probably worth looking at that code (and associated doc). > > I didnʼt know about that. Would there be any issue with merging such > changes back to emacs? I assume itʼs all GPL, but there might be > copyright assignment issues. I presume the changes are beyond the dozen or so lines which we are allowed to accept without copyright assignment, in which case this will require legal paperwork as a prerequisite. > so using native bignums appears to be ~10x faster that calc's bignums, > and create less garbage. Sounds great, thanks for working on this.