Re: unsigned 64 bit integers patch

On 1/6/2014 11:49 PM, Aaron Burrow wrote:
> Why do you not use parse-integer(...) ?

After some quick tests, using the C functions allows us not to bring the 
C-string into lisp and thus uses about 50% of the memory of a 
parse-integer approach.  I tested using sqlite3, querying a table of 
1.8M 64bit ints.  The C approach also uses a little less processing power.

Cheers,
Russ Tyndall
Acceleration.net