sitrep 2008-10-06..2008-10-12

[Elliott Hughes]

(i know the week starts on Sunday, but most of the time i get to work on
Talc tends to be Sunday, so Sunday tends to be Talc's day of finishing.)

* worked on more efficient boxed integers, giving IntegerValue both a
"long" fixnum and a "BigInteger" bignum where the former is ignored if the
latter is non-null. not quite finished, but working out pretty nice. still
nice and simple (and all contained in one class) but 5x faster on the most
numerically-intensive code i have. not important work, but hopefully i've
scratched the itch enough now that i can ignore it again for a few more
months.

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Elliott Hughes, http://www.jessies.org/~enh/