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From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object
Subject: Re: Smalltalk scaleability & IdentityDictionaries
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.223608.12835@odi.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 22:36:08 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.193441.28581@bqnes74.bnr.ca>
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Organization: Object Design, Inc.
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In-Reply-To: CWatts@BNR.CA's message of 26 Jun 91 19:34:41 GMT

In article <1991Jun26.193441.28581@bqnes74.bnr.ca> CWatts@BNR.CA (Carl Watts) writes:

	     What other language do you now of that can as easily handle 2
   + 3 as it can evaluate:

   958685745856745747465784756948574847584737384877584 +
   9293458823458723745734875847574874875748874374373646

Since you ask, Lisp.  Whether Lisp or Smalltalk was doing arbitrary
precision integer arithmetic first would require some careful
research, but I don't think it's worth worrying about.

None of which has anything to do with the point you were making.