GNU bug report logs - #32405
[PATCH] Turn misc objects into pseudovectors

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 03:00:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 32405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 32405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Emacs Development <Emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Turning misc objects into pseudovectors
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:31:35 -0600

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

Paul> Bug#32405 contains a patch that will get rid of the
Paul> miscellaneous-object category of the Emacs Lisp interpreter, and will
Paul> change these objects to be pseudovectors instead. The motivation is to
Paul> simplify the interpreter and garbage collector and speed it up
Paul> slightly, and to simplify potential future changes.

This seems reasonable to me.  Do you plan to land it soon?
I am wondering if I should wait for this before merging bignum.
Currently bignums are implemented as misc types, not pseudovectors.

Tom
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