[Ecls-list] Slow bignums

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <
juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The results are _very_ much platform dependent. On a Linux x86_64 box I get
> the following:
>

Just a stupid remark that may not be obvious to everybody: a conservative
garbage collector such as the Boehm-Weiser will always work much better in a
64-bits architecture -- the enlarged address space makes it more difficult
to mis-identify integers as pointers.

Juanjo

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