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Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:04:08 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Eller <address@hidden> writes:

Helmut> And I would be surprised if Emacs would switch to bignums for functions
Helmut> like, current-time of file-attributes, where it would actually make
Helmut> sense to use bignums.

This was discussed elsewhere in the thread - that is what the
INTEGER_TO_CONS stuff was about.  Paul wanted this change:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-07/msg00160.html

I'm maybe a bit more cautious about it.

Tom



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