1:19:35no-defun-allowedI was sent https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html, which suggests using 51-bit limbs for bignums would avoid having to move around carries, making addition faster.
1:24:02no-defun-allowedOr rather, it does move around carries, but only does so at the end, allowing additions to be run in parallel on a superscalar processor.
8:31:10heisigbeach: Have you reached any conclusion on how to deal with EQL specializers, yet?
8:32:11heisigbeach: I had the same problem when implementing fast generic functions, and I essentially modeled them as subclasses their object's class.
8:33:07heisigSo (eql 42) would be a 'subclass' of fixnum.