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

[Emanuel Berg]

Mattias Engdegård wrote:

>> Most of the time is spent in (1) GC; (2) Creating bigint:
>
> This is well known.

Not by everyone :)

> I'm not aware of any useful Elisp code that is
> bignum-intensive. The nearest is perhaps using Calc for
> certain kinds of algebraic operations but even there,
> bignums are rarely a significant performance factor.
>
> Making the allocator and GC faster in general is useful
> since it benefits everything. Just speeding up bignums, not
> so much.

But we have the best editor in the world, and it is based on
Lisp. Shouldn't we have the best Lisp in the world as well?
It is not like we would kill the Elisp people, on the contrary
we want them. They would be assimilated ...

And maybe the CL people would come to Emacs as well?

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