From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: view/edit large files Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:46:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86fxiuw6u7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86zlgzqudo.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <86k583p96e.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874oz7grs0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <864oz3nyj8.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234255619 5798 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2009 08:46:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:46:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 09:48:14 2009 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 4.50) id 1LWoHu-00020F-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:48:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWoGa-00049B-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWoGU-00047J-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:46:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWoGS-000477-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:46:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50508 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWoGS-000474-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:54649) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWoGS-00061s-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KEU00M00D9IOD00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:46:44 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.128.7]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KEU00NCADPN3GL0@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:46:36 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:108937 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > 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.