bignum dev list

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Map and Batch Operations on Arrays

Those who read Apocalypse 3 (and everybody here should because the Apocalypses describe what we plan to implement) would know that Larry Wall decided to implement batch operations on arrays. Hence it would be possible to add two arrays in order to get a third array whose members equal to the sums

Proper Tail Recursion

For those who are not familiar with the term, proper tail recursion means that if the last operation of a function is a call to itself only with different argument, than the function simply goes to its beginning. Proper Tail Recursion is harder to debug, but consumes less memory and is faster to

better parrotguts drawing

I made a couple changes to the drawing. Stacks and register structures are now a bit more conceptual -- it is much easier to see how they work. See for the latest. Keep in mind that the light blue "frame" stuff at the bottom is experimental. Anybody inte

Re: memory assumptions

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:05:51PM -0500, Michael L Maraist wrote: > treat them separately. We're already having to treat handles differently > than buffer-objects. I'm also wanting to segregate lists of leaf-buffers, Ok here is a reference to the thread that mentioned copy-on-write for shar

RE: Lexical implementation work

At 04:12 AM 11/11/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote: >On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 01:39 PM 11/9/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > > >Dan Sugalski: > > >Of course. Random question only very tangentially related to this: is > > >INTVAL (and thus the I registers) supposed to be big en

Re: Revamping the build system

Paolo Molaro wrote: > > And if we have to use make, then we're back with the very problems of portably > > calling compilers and so on that this supposed new build system was meant to > > avoid. > > I'm going to bite and say the words (and get the flames). > > autoconf automake libtool