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Tim Bradshaw  
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 More options Aug 20 2002, 6:14 pm
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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
Date: 20 Aug 2002 23:13:39 +0100
Local: Tues, Aug 20 2002 6:13 pm
Subject: Re: Common Lisp wish list item
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* Erik Naggum wrote:
>   I really wish fixnums were the natural machine word.

Me too.

Although it's not the same thing, I presume that 64 bit lisps do (or
could) have fixnums which are significantly bigger than 32 bits, so
the various `naturally 32 bit' algorithms like lots of crypto stuff
should be quite easy to implement without horror consing.  Decent
floats will still be a pain though.

Of course that assumes pervasive 64 bit HW, which seems to be very
slow arriving in the PC world.

--tim


 
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