From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:26:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y35ygzvf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <797395c9-1bab-7f43-ce76-8b45c94dacae@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:59:25 -0800)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:59:25 -0800
>
> On 2/28/19 10:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We have
> > lived with this limitation for a long time, so why not leave it alone?
> > Just because we _can_ make them bignums doesn't necessarily mean we
> > should.
>
> I'm mostly worried about garbage-collection statistics that can overflow
> fixnums on 32-bit platform.
Why is that a problem? They are just for display to the user, no?
> However, it's a valid point that most of these DEFVAR_INTs can be
> fixnums. I'll look into changing them back, while keeping GC stats
> reliable.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-01 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-27 16:13 [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-28 1:50 ` Paul Eggert
2019-02-28 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 16:59 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-01 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-03-05 2:11 ` Paul Eggert
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