From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: integer overflow Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:49:08 -0600 Message-ID: <87vdd7cta3.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <87vddmpw4s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbp2fwoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrxrr4md.fsf@gnu.org> <3vsk8ecg6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <873a0euot4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873a0cyv3r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87d3zgt5hj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tyssxc2y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268023738 27378 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2010 04:48:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 08 05:48:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoUte-0001oe-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:48:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoUtd-00080k-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:48:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NoUtZ-00080V-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46869 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoUtX-00080K-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:48:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoUtU-0008Qy-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:48:43 -0500 Original-Received: from s5.cableone.net ([24.116.0.231]:56918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoUtU-0008Qg-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from belanger-desktop (unverified [24.116.73.151]) by s5.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service s5) with ESMTP id 30057615-1872270 for multiple; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:48:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87tyssxc2y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:42:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-Vpipe: Scanner said ok (av_avast) X-NotAscii: charset=us-ascii X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 516, in=400, out=0, spam=0 ip=24.116.73.151 X-Originating-IP: 24.116.73.151 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121723 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: ... > bignum support alone indeed should be reasonably straightforward. It > should certainly speed up Emacs calc once Emacs calc is cleaned up to > use it. Yes, and if Emacs gets bignum support it shouldn't take long for Calc to use it. (Oddly enough, while he might have written Calc anyhow, being able to work with big integers was one of Dave Gillespie's motivations to write Calc.) Jay