From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:04:35 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3FD85844.3060108@ccrma> <1071170342.1217.60.camel@flare> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071241615 15974 80.91.224.253 (12 Dec 2003 15:06:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bill Schottstaedt , guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 16:06:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUosS-0007qY-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:06:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUpp4-0002bE-TR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:07:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUpoS-0002VQ-8m for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:06:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUpnp-0001r2-8W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:06:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [129.22.104.63] (helo=harris.CNS.CWRU.Edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUpnn-0001oj-9P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:06:03 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.smtp-a.cwru.edu by smtp-a.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) id <0HPS00901F3SN8@smtp-a.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:04:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by smtp-a.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with SMTP id <0HPS003DAF7P99@smtp-a.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:04:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 12793 invoked by uid 500); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:04:59 +0000 In-reply-to: <1071170342.1217.60.camel@flare> Original-To: Carl Witty Mail-followup-to: Carl Witty , Bill Schottstaedt , guile-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 10 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3118 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3118 Carl Witty 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel