Re: bignum branch

[Stefan Monnier]

> That's what I'd expect as well, and so I don't think --with-wide-int
> will die too quickly.

Not in the near future, no.  For that reason I just said "eventually".

> I personally need to use buffers larger than
> 0.5GB all the time on my daytime job.

Is that on 32bit systems (i.e. using wide-int)?
Do these rarely exceed the 2GB limit?
By "use" I assume you mean also "edit", right?


        Stefan