Simon Josefsson <jas(a)pdc.kth.se&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... >> > Would everything break if we link with GMP (a GNU multiple precision >> > library which is quite efficient) for the integer stuff? >> >> That would be cool, but it's a project definitely more complex than >> just "linking with GMP". > Ok. I'll start by looking around for MP-libraries in elisp, or writing > one from scratch, instead. > Still, native MP functionality in XEmacs would be very nice, and I was > surprised it didn't already exist. While it may look like it at a casual glance, XEmacs does not link against every library in Known Space. :-) If you're interested in adding this capability, take a look at src/database.c which links against libdb and kin, and src/eldap.c which links against libldap for examples.