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: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:04:08 -0600 Message-ID: <87bmbeo7dz.fsf@tromey.com> References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <87tvpdnzgy.fsf@tromey.com> <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> <49d8ba62-c9a5-9203-d882-8e900b441ff3@cs.ucla.edu> <8e0320d9-e0d0-2b57-57cc-2df4399f133c@cs.ucla.edu> <800714ed-990a-676d-e68c-e6c6bcd72c57@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531274555 4049 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2018 02:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 02:02:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 04:02:31 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 1fd4SX-0000tj-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 04:02:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fd4Ue-00008V-64 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fd4UU-00008M-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fd4UR-0006et-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from gateway34.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.148.212]:23894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fd4UR-0006eS-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from cm16.websitewelcome.com (cm16.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.19]) by gateway34.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C013336495 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:04:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id d4UDf2rn7aSeyd4UKfg5ir; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:04:21 -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=gXvVhyagJ1Dg+5hbh015mNjJrJCuurwRy4WEOrlpypE=; b=lAObZ+8KdaOUCFMM6dMu9kMN/p uLKcKEaLXOn3QpwlmgE/7DNGWmndcW/zOziHIQuebp1jGdhQ3QbYmQ4gNErk7QiywS8Sq6EN9qz2L AQXhiiPXakcFvIvr949lyjY7F; Original-Received: from 75-166-85-72.hlrn.qwest.net ([75.166.85.72]:48044 helo=bapiya) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1fd4UD-002rBN-B0; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:04:09 -0500 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Helmut Eller's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:14:52 +0200") 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: 1fd4UD-002rBN-B0 X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: 75-166-85-72.hlrn.qwest.net (bapiya) [75.166.85.72]:48044 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 2 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: 192.185.148.212 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:227233 Archived-At: >>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Eller writes: Helmut> And I would be surprised if Emacs would switch to bignums for functions Helmut> like, current-time of file-attributes, where it would actually make Helmut> sense to use bignums. This was discussed elsewhere in the thread - that is what the INTEGER_TO_CONS stuff was about. Paul wanted this change: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-07/msg00160.html I'm maybe a bit more cautious about it. Tom