Re: big strings

Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) writes:
 > Thanks for the replacement.  The only possible issue with the
 > replacement would be performance.  BIT-BASH-COPY tries pretty hard
 > to do word copies.  And BIT-BASH-COPY is intended to be able to
 > copy arbitrary bit strings.  I don't know why it's limited to
 > (unsigned-byte 27) offsets.  Perhaps to make sure the bit index
 > stays as a 32-bit int?

This is what came to mind reading the error.  What I didn't understand
is why we get an error at all, being:

 2^27 > 17M   (way larger)

and anyway

 array-dimension-limit = 2^29 - 1

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walter pelissero
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