Re: Bignum performance (was: Shrinking the C core)

[Emanuel Berg]

Ihor Radchenko wrote:

> And the fact that we allocate many objects is related to
> immutability of bignums. Every time we do (setq bignum (*
> bignum fixint)), we abandon the old object holding BIGNUM
> value and allocate a new bignum object with a new value.
> Clearly, this allocation is not free and takes a lot of CPU
> time. While the computation itself is fast.

So this happens in Emacs C code, OK.

> Maybe we could somehow re-use the already allocated bignum
> objects, similar to what is done for cons cells (see
> src/alloc.c:Fcons).

Sounds reasonable :)

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