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Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:12:09 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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




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