From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: view/edit large files
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:46:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4dqsmq8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmycvgim3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:05 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> MB> Why? Floats are certainly a bit more convenient for the user...
> > By the same logic, time storage could have been done with floats.
>
> Most likely time conses date back to a time were Emacs could be
> configured without floats.
Yes, probably.
> > The reason why it bothers me a bit is that it would be inconsistent
> > with time storage--now there's two ways of storing large integers.
>
> There are already many inconsistencies in this regard. FWIW, I believe
> that file-attributes can return floats for things like file-size.
Yes, we do return a float for size. But for some attributes, like
inode, floats are not a good idea, because inodes are habitually
compared for exact equality. I'm not sure time values need that
measure of accuracy, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-10 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 17:20 map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 18:54 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 19:22 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 19:52 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-02 20:54 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 22:42 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 13:57 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 22:41 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 23:59 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-03 4:13 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 7:27 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-03 14:50 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 7:04 ` map-file-lines Richard M Stallman
2009-02-04 15:38 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-05 5:40 ` map-file-lines Richard M Stallman
2009-02-06 18:42 ` view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-06 21:06 ` view/edit large files Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-06 21:49 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <864oz3nyj8.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2009-02-10 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-10 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-02-10 9:23 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-10 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 10:02 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-10 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-17 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-17 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 20:18 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-17 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 21:19 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-17 21:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-18 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-18 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-20 19:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-10 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 12:46 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-07 9:14 ` view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) Richard M Stallman
2009-02-09 20:26 ` view/edit large files Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-10 20:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-06 13:20 ` map-file-lines Mathias Dahl
2009-02-02 22:40 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 4:11 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 20:48 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 8:08 ` map-file-lines Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-02-03 14:00 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 14:17 ` map-file-lines Miles Bader
2009-02-03 10:45 ` map-file-lines Thierry Volpiatto
2009-02-03 14:06 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 14:56 ` map-file-lines Thierry Volpiatto
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-07 3:44 view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) MON KEY
2009-02-08 4:34 ` Bob Rogers
2009-02-09 19:44 ` view/edit large files Thien-Thi Nguyen
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