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From: gumby@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: 24 bit pointers
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Date: 3 Jan 90 21:28:15 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rlk@think.com's message of 2 Jan 90 01:24:21 GMT

Since gnu emacs runs on conventional hardware why not adopt BIBOP?
It's extremely cheap.  I think someone already suggested this.

g

PS: For those who haven't heard of it, under BIBOP you allocate
    regions of memory to specific datatypes.  You can think of this as
    "overloading" the pointers.  This was especially cute and cheap on
    the PDP-10, but any machine with a barrel shifter can implement it
    cheaply too.