Re: Plea for minimal tagbits
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:56:51AM -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>>> "OG" == Olivier Galibert
<galibert(a)pobox.com> writes:
OG> Errr, didn't we agree that 0-FFFFFF (aka, 24 bits) was enough ?
OG> Maximal tagbits have 24bits characters, minimal tagbits 30bits ones
OG> (and not 31, that's only for integers).
There's a misunderstanding here. At one time there were only 24
valbits, but modern emacsen have 28 valbits, allowing for buffers much
bigger than 8MB.
I can't count. 32-1(mark)-3(type)=28. *Autolart*.
128Mb buffers. More reasonable.
OG.