From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:07:37 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Improve configure --help text for wide ints
X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~763
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=abf673af29ba2a2e0001ebd1db183377724f0cc4;p=emacs.git

Improve configure --help text for wide ints

* configure.ac (wide-int): Clarify user-level advantages and
disadvantages.
---

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