From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net) Date: Wed Mar 22 16:11:10 EST 2006 |
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Jim Blandy wrote: > What's frustrating here is that, for bignums, the system has an > approximation to the log base 2--- the length of the number in memory > --- right there, but it won't give it to you. So you should be able > to get it in constant time. Yes - adding integer-length as a primitive would make a lot of sense. -- Jens Axel Søgaard
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