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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:04:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k752axgm.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1071170342.1217.60.camel@flare>

Carl Witty <cwitty@newtonlabs.com> wrote:
> For instance, we could reduce fractions only if the numerator or
> denominator is a bignum, in hopes that we will get back to
> fixnum-sized numbers.

Or reduce when the numerator or denominator is nearly a bignum, in the
hopes that we will prevent the need for allocating bignums.


paul


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-12 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-11 11:43 scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety Bill Schottstaedt
2003-12-11 19:19 ` Carl Witty
2003-12-12 12:11   ` Bill Schottstaedt
2003-12-12 15:04   ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2003-12-12 23:23   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-10 22:38     ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-10 23:29       ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-11  1:31         ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-12  0:51           ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-12  5:22             ` Richard Todd
2004-01-14 21:09               ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-21  0:03               ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-21  0:00             ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-21  3:11               ` Carl Witty
2004-01-21 21:06                 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-27 22:15                 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-27 23:24                   ` Rob Browning
2004-01-29 19:35                     ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-29 20:32                       ` Rob Browning
2004-01-30 14:45                       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-01 18:49                         ` Andy Wingo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-09 20:39 Kevin Ryde

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