Re: maximum buffer size exceeded

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     The only drawback I can see is that Lisp_Objects have to be allocated
>     on 16 byte boundaries rather than the current 8 byte boundary, so a
>     little space may be wasted (and maybe not...).
>
> For cons cells and floats, it would mean half the space is wasted.

Maybe we'll need one higher order bit after all.  Or we let every cons
cell have a siamese twin float in its second half.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum