Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] [CHICKEN 5] Change numerics representations

[felix . winkelmann]

> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 10:56:39PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> > The attached patches add a custom type for bignums (first patch) and
> > custom types for ratnums/cplxnums (second patch).  This reduces the
> > aforementioned C_s_a_i_times() pre-allocation from 40 to 29 words.
>
> Here's an updated version, because the original patch doesn't apply
> anymore due to the C_BUCKET_TYPE removal.

Signed off and pushed. A somewhat disturbing patch, but it does indeed simplify 
the
code. Having only one type bit lefft worries me a bit, though.


felix