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That's the case in practice (both the internal limits and the optimizations). For example Common Lisp's ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT is a fixnum. The default numeric
by junke 10y ago
That's the case in practice (both the internal limits and the optimizations). For example Common Lisp's ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT is a fixnum. The default numeric type is not bignum, however, the numeric tower is here to use them only when needed.
- SamReidHughes 10y agoThat distinction is a common lisp-ism. A "bignum" implementation in the context of this article won't allocate for the small values.