From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Q: ways to convert floats to integers (fixnums) Date: 11 Dec 2000 18:47:55 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3185549275069911@naggum.net> References: <873dfv148l.fsf@asaka.latnet.lv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 976562222 16220 195.0.192.66 (11 Dec 2000 19:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Dec 2000 19:17:02 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:5029 * Janis Dzerins | Drawing function needs integers so I call TRUNCATE to get an integer | but that conses like hell (50% of the space). Is that because the integers turn into bignums, i.e., they need more than the typical 29+1 bits that fixnums are made up of? #:Erik -- "When you are having a bad day and it seems like everybody is trying to piss you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle." -- Unknown