Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Leo <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2010-09-10 15:01 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Yeah. Bignum support in Emacs would totally rock. No more manual
>> conversions to floating point numbers to do safe-ish computations on
>> numbers that might be too big would be needed.
>>
>> But I suspect that it's a kinda big project.  :-)
>
> GNU already has http://gmplib.org/. Would love to see it linked in too ;)

Let me just quote a random line from the Emacs sources:

  int nbytes = XINT (length);

And then think about what you'd have to do to make Emacs support random
precision arithmetic.  It makes me swoon just to contemplate.  :-)

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