From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:28:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: <8739ti68sz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqwm1dsl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87iq2d4sd5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762yd4r7j.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284146928 9245 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2010 19:28:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:28:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 21:28:47 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 1Ou9H9-0001u8-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:28:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58114 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou9H8-00063u-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43929 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou9H2-00063m-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou9H1-0006nh-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23828) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou9H0-0006nU-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o8AJSWrm017570 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o8AJSVJQ011896; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o8AJSTXM008190; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id E5D553792BD; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:28:28 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <8762yd4r7j.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:18:40 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.16 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:129928 Archived-At: >>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov writes: Ted> If everything was inside a num64-* namespace and a num64.el package, Ted> it's a pretty easy implementation. I'm not an expert on numeric Ted> algorithms[1] but I'd guess the internals can be pretty easily Ted> implemented in ELisp as a list of up to 3 native 28-bit ints. In fact Ted> I'm surprised that doesn't exist yet; maybe I've missed it. I thought there was one in Calc. Tom