Re: tags in the 3 lowest bits

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> [BoehmGC]
> > Dave Love has started work on this and it would be interesting to see
> > how it works out in practice (what kind of impact it has on memory
> > footprint and CPU usage).
> 
> What is the status of that effort?  Dave?
> 
> IMHO, this is not a user-visible change, so I think we have more
> important things to work on.

Actually, the current tag work _has_ been inspired by user complaints,
and it is quite user-visible.  It changes the value of
most-positive-fixnum, and thus the maximum size of Emacs buffers.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum