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| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 94ee9b7aa2b..cfd591c7b86 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ this option's value should be 'yes', 'no', 'lucid', 'athena', 'motif', 'gtk', with_x_toolkit=$val ]) -OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([wide-int], [prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit)]) +OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([wide-int], [prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit); allows buffer and string size up to 2GB on 32-bit hosts, at the cost of 10% to 30% slowdown of Lisp interpreter and larger memory footprint]) if test "$with_wide_int" = yes; then AC_DEFINE([WIDE_EMACS_INT], 1, [Use long long for EMACS_INT if available.]) fi |