Minor erratum: Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
> Emacs hasn't made that choice, XEmacs did. I believe Emacs is still > "restricted" to 128MB, or maybe 256MB, buffers. They recently had an > opportunity to increase integer size, and thus maximum buffer size, > but refused it. It's not a no-brainer. I stand corrected. Emacs did make some changes which increased integer size from 28 bits to 30, allowing a maximum signed value of 512M, but refused the tradeoff I described of making the cons type be indicated by a pointer to a type description record rather than a type bit in one of the pointers. That would have allowed 31 bits for integers, as in XEmacs. The basic thrust of my argument was correct, though. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
