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Re: --with-wide-int
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: --with-wide-int |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:26:36 +0900 |
Stefan Monnier writes:
> But these files are less likely to fall in the 512MB-2GB window, in my
> experience.
In my experience, when I proposed making XEmacs internal character
objects 31-bit and integers 30-bit (this was back in the days before
ISO 10646 agreed to cap the size of character codes at 17*65536),
there was vociferous opposition from 3 or 4 core developers who were
viewing such log files "regularly". (Note that our 31-bit integer
limits you to 1GB because it's signed, so the window was smaller.
Still, "many" people wanted that extra bit badly.)
> [ Also, you can much more easily work around the 512MB limit for
> those files e.g. by grepping them first].
That's what I said. They disagreed, saying the was not a practical
alternative in their usage.
Note also that it's almost trivial to work around the limit for RMail
files, just split the thing at a message boundary.
- Re: immediate strings, (continued)
- Re: immediate strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/26
- Re: immediate strings, Dmitry Antipov, 2011/11/26
- Re: immediate strings, Paul Eggert, 2011/11/26
- --with-wide-int, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/27
- Re: --with-wide-int, Paul Eggert, 2011/11/28
- Re: --with-wide-int, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/28
- Re: --with-wide-int, Dan Nicolaescu, 2011/11/28
- Re: --with-wide-int, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/28
- Re: --with-wide-int, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/28
- Re: --with-wide-int,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: --with-wide-int, Paul Eggert, 2011/11/29