From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Compall Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: gmp issues (long) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:32:17 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200302251332.32383.s11@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046201672 30353 80.91.224.249 (25 Feb 2003 19:34:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:34:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nkqU-0007tM-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:34:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkpi-0007zQ-08 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:33:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkp3-0007Lw-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkoe-0006Ut-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:32:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.195.225.6] (helo=localhost) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkob-0006Re-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:32:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983B73984A for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:32:32 -0600 (CST) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1972 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1972 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Browning wrote: replace the _mp_size field with a short, since I doubt that we'd ever be likely to overflow long data[MAX_SHORT] digits. (What was the size limit, if any, on our old bignums?). My first use of GMP in C (after the requisite playing around while=20 learning) was to try to build up a Godel number as an example in a=20 project involving semigroups I'm working on (OT). After creating one of=20 these numbers, I believe the memory usage of the mpz_t & friends was ~5=20 MB. While this was an abnormal case, it's still far off from 256k.=20 er.... =2D --=20 Stephen Compall - Also known as S11001001 DotGNU `Contributor' -- http://dotgnu.org Jabber ID: sirian@theoretic.com To be a hacker, one had to accept the philosophy that writing a software program was only the beginning. Improving a program was the true test of a hacker's skills. -- Sam Williams, "Free as in Freedom" According to Stallman, improving software programs was secondary to building them in the first place. -- Sam Williams, "Free as in Freedom" =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+W8TF2AceYinZ4EgRAlZNAJ9P9F9eTsPNfc4jT2sT5eOuVfXmQwCffLBT vXQI6o8La5tvIOsd07kuFgo=3D =3DEt+6 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel