Re: Three questions.

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From: Jim Blandy
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 12:28

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In article <9104300331.AA03249@thalidomide> jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes:

   Yeah, hadn't thought of that.  Our emacses have VALBITS=26, letting us go
   to >16 megs, so I've never run out of memory.

Complete side-issue - most Lisp_Objects are aligned on 4-byte
boundaries; I think they all are.  If they all are, you can steal the
bottom two address bits and get VALBITS=28...  Yah!
--

-Jim Blandy
jimb@ai.mit.edu

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