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Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums |
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Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:12:09 -0400 |
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>> AFAIK any Unicode codepoint fits in 22 (or even 21?) bits, and while we
>> may use a few extra codepoints IIUC in some corner cases, it should all
>> fit comfortably within our 28 bits of FIXNATs.
>
> Unicode codepoints have almost nothing to do with this, since nowadays
I used Unicode as a reference of the magnitude that can be expected.
While GB-10830 is larger than Unicode, it's not much larger (although
we encode it into codepoints that are sparsely populated, thus
needing all 32bits).
Stefan
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, (continued)
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Paul Eggert, 2018/09/08
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/08
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Paul Eggert, 2018/09/08
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/08
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/09
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/09
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/10
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/10
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/10
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/09
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums,
Stefan Monnier <=
Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Paul Eggert, 2018/09/08
RE: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Drew Adams, 2018/09/08