Re: Making --with-wide-int the default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:18:26 +0200
> 
> Instead of going to 64-bit unilaterally it would seem to make more sense
> to me to degrade gracefully into gmp.

How can GMP help extend the maximum size of buffers and strings beyond
what a 32-bit EMACS_INT allows?

And how can GMP be faster than (or even close to) the native 64-bit
integral types supported by the C compiler?