From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc1.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Q: LispWorks speed issue References: <3c8ddbcc$1_2@news.meganetnews.com> <9f023346.0203120950.12c736ed@posting.google.com> <3c8e52e2$1_1@news.meganetnews.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3224957099514807@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:24:48 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1015968288 193.71.199.50 (Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:24:48 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:24:48 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:28666 * "Ladvánszky Károly" | Trolling??? God, some of you guys here are hypersensitive! Who you gooa call? Trollbusters! Actually, I think it is kind of sad that bignums have to be consed all the time instead of being mutable, but it is hard to request non-consing arithmetic operations and the language allows bignums to be passed around without copying, so it is possible that someone may hang on to a value. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.