Subject: Re: Q: LispWorks speed issue
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:24:48 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3224957099514807@naggum.net>

* "Ladvánszky Károly" <a...@bb.cc>
| 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.

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