Re:Solutions to Integer Overflow
by junke on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:24AM
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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 type is not bignum, however, the numeric tower is here to use them only when needed.
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Re:Solutions to Integer Overflow
by SamReidHughes on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:48AM
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That distinction is a common lisp-ism. A "bignum" implementation in the context of this article won't allocate for the small values.