[Ecls-list] Latest changes

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 29 09:27:50 UTC 2009


 - Bignums are now allocated as a compact IMMUTABLE unit that combines the lisp
   object and the data for the GMP integer itself. Since it can be now
   allocated as an atomic (i.e. pointerless) region of memory, the garbage
   collector has to work less for marking and collecting them.

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