Re: It seems to be useless to change #'gensym to use all 7 bits of info.
Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Marcus Harnisch:
Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
> My idea was that it might reduce the dumped size a little if we used seven
> bits per octet in the generated symbol name, instead of formatting the
> current value of *gensym-counter* as a decimal as we do now.
> With all seven bits per char:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 aidan admin 3535640 10 Feb 22:37 src/xemacs.dmp
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 aidan admin 3536052 10 Feb 22:34 src/xemacs.dmp
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-412
Are you sure that the savings justify the added complexity?
I’m sure that they don’t, Marcus, which is why I am not planning to make the
change. As the biologists say, a negative result is still a result, so I
posted with the information despite that.
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