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Re: scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety
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Bill Schottstaedt |
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Re: scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:11:02 -0800 |
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> I think that one way to avoid arbitrarily-bad behavior is to reduce only
> if the numerator or denominator is "sufficiently large" (I think this is
> at most a constant factor worse than always reducing). For instance, we
> could reduce fractions only if the numerator or denominator is a bignum,
> in hopes that we will get back to fixnum-sized numbers.
That strikes me as a good idea -- I think it would also
fit into the current code pretty easily.