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Hashing structure writ large Home Hybrid assoc lists Implementing post scarcity hardware Lazy Collections Memory, threads and communication Names of things Post Scarcity Hardware Post Scarcity Software Topology of the hardware of the deep future access control assoc list bignum cons pointer cons space core functions free list homogeneity immutability interning strings memory management mutability other really tricky bits parallelism path plan overview regularity stack sysout and sysin system private functions users vector space
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Simon Brooke edited this page 2017-01-02 11:26:41 +00:00

It's crucial to the concept of post-scarcity computing that it supports arithmetic over any numbers and is not limited to particular memory representations. So bignums must be supported. How exactly we'll represent bignums I don't yet know, but I'll probably look at SBCL's implementation and copy that.