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

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> aren't we optimizing a rare situation,

Not at all. In practice, floating point computations favor values like 0.0 and 
100.0 where the bottom 3 bits of the representation are zero. True, computations 
involving random floating-point numbers will get such values only 1/8 of the 
time; but Emacs computations are not typically random.

Any changes in this area should be aimed at typical Emacs usage. If we can get a 
performance win when Emacs compiles itself, that'd be a good sign, though of 
course not conclusive.