From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-02-16T07:33:06-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01449] Re: Bignum aset

	>You can always use bitwise-or to set particular bit.
	>
	>  a |= nth_bit
	>
	>just like C, without size limitation.

Except that this form makes a copy of the bignum, and for
a 40k pile of bits that's pretty slow :-(.

/\ndy