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

[Tom Tromey]

David> Of course, doing this properly might also mean less work for moving to
David> arbitrary-size integers eventually (probably using the Lisp_Int1 tag
David> when the 28-bit range does not suffice), though that one will likely
David> need a lot of converting `eq' -> `eql' in the Lisp code base.

Preserving the eq/eql distinction seems pointless.  It's a leaky
abstraction with no real gain for Emacs Lisp developers.  I think it's
better to just make `eq' treat bignums as values, and then don't bother
changing all the exist elisp.

Tom