From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning misc objects into pseudovectors Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:31:35 -0600 Message-ID: <8736vn8pso.fsf@tromey.com> References: <988905f1-fb41-9559-300d-d015bda4b791@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533832203 7250 195.159.176.226 (9 Aug 2018 16:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 16:30:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 32405@debbugs.gnu.org, Emacs Development To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 09 18:29:59 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 1fnnp1-0001m1-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnnr7-000361-TD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnnqx-00031Z-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnnqt-0005b2-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from gateway21.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.45.2]:31110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnnqt-0005aj-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from cm15.websitewelcome.com (cm15.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.9]) by gateway21.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7A2400CD14C for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 11:31:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id nnqef4d6sbXuJnnqmfTOBw; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:31:53 -0500 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=K3NeWtISlDANimLJ2UcAEBXeNYNLZQbbSeWqaT8pQns=; b=cPcDTjAR//SBMmqbgdlmbJ/Xol B0rnFVEI9HBj5uHvbTcXI5/OyskZYs8g54jH09ZwUTg7vU8Kv9r5+7dSF5W0tVlSfxqfbBLNjCLB9 tucPi8axuAnAFVmSi8UEQ18Ee; Original-Received: from 75-166-85-72.hlrn.qwest.net ([75.166.85.72]:60846 helo=pokyo) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1fnnqd-001orE-NH; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:31:39 -0500 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <988905f1-fb41-9559-300d-d015bda4b791@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:07:30 -0700") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box5379.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tromey.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 75.166.85.72 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1fnnqd-001orE-NH X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: 75-166-85-72.hlrn.qwest.net (pokyo) [75.166.85.72]:60846 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 8 X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTM3OS5ibHVlaG9zdC5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 192.185.45.2 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:228334 Archived-At: >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert writes: Paul> Bug#32405 contains a patch that will get rid of the Paul> miscellaneous-object category of the Emacs Lisp interpreter, and will Paul> change these objects to be pseudovectors instead. The motivation is to Paul> simplify the interpreter and garbage collector and speed it up Paul> slightly, and to simplify potential future changes. This seems reasonable to me. Do you plan to land it soon? I am wondering if I should wait for this before merging bignum. Currently bignums are implemented as misc types, not pseudovectors. Tom