GNU bug report logs - #38708
[PATCH] Deduplicate flonum and bignum constants in bytecode

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Message #25 received at 38708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 38708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pipcet <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#38708: [PATCH] Deduplicate flonum and bignum constants in
 bytecode
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:07:34 +0200

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:50:14 +0100
> Cc: 38708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Obviously it's a small change, and one that I'm prepared to revert if required. But I would like to understand the reason and principles behind it. I want elisp to be faster; we have promised exactly nobody that each numeric literal has its own identity, nor is that a reasonable assumption by a programmer to make.

IMO, this discussion should happen on emacs-devel, not here.  Some
people whose opinions might be important don't read the bug list.

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