Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:07:35 -0400
> 
> > How likely is it to see a floating-point number with 4 low-order bits
> > of mantissa zero?
> 
> For floating point values read from Elisp source code, the probability
> is not bad at all.  OTOH for code performing any non-trivial
> calculation, of course, the probably should hover around 1/2^4, so
> pretty low.

That's what I thought.  So given this, aren't we optimizing a rare
situation, and OTOH making the code more complex and perhaps less
efficient for the majority of use cases?