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Re: Reading portions of large files


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: Reading portions of large files
Date: 13 Jan 2003 16:40:34 +0900

"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> 
writes:
> Since at least 1 bit of tag is needed, that means that to get 31bit
> integers we'd need to move the mark bit somewhere else.

Hmmm?  I thought only boxed object had to have a mark bit, in which case
integers don't need one.  [Indeed, looking at the current garbage
collector, it doesn't seem to mark integers]

I'd also like to have low-bit tags so I can stack-allocate lisp objects...

-Miles
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