Re: maximum buffer size exceeded

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.09.2007 um 14:13 schrieb Giorgos Keramidas:

> Are there plans to make the buffer size use one of the types with "at
> least X bits", like uint32_t or uint64_t?  Do you think there is a  
> good
> reason *not* to do this (i.e. an absurd performance penalty on some of
> the supported platforms)?

Because of performance issues exactly these aligned data types are  
used – and a small part, those mentioned three bits, is reserved for  
Lisp, to record the Lisp type of the variable.

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