Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums

[Stefan Monnier]

>> AFAIK any Unicode codepoint fits in 22 (or even 21?) bits, and while we
>> may use a few extra codepoints IIUC in some corner cases, it should all
>> fit comfortably within our 28 bits of FIXNATs.
>
> Unicode codepoints have almost nothing to do with this, since nowadays

I used Unicode as a reference of the magnitude that can be expected.
While GB-10830 is larger than Unicode, it's not much larger (although
we encode it into codepoints that are sparsely populated, thus
needing all 32bits).


        Stefan