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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are there two dolist?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:34:49 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874osdncva.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090811.193025.204578572.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (Harald Hanche-Olsen's message of "Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:30:25 -0400 (EDT)")

Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:
>> > I haven't looked at the code (recently), but because elisp doesn't
>> > natively support lexical blocks, I suspect the cl-macs version either
>> > (1) adds unnecessary runtime overhead, or (2) drags in lots of big and
>> > crufty compile-time analysis code (cl.el has lots of this) to optimize
>> > away the block when not used.
>
> Actually, the cl-macs version looks pretty simple to me.

Right, I checked -- it actually just incurs run-time overhead... :/

Anyway, the two-dolists are not the prettiest thing in the world, but
they work fine, and there's a reason for having them.

-miles

-- 
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-11 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-11 22:14 Why are there two dolist? Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 22:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  8:45   ` David Kastrup
2009-08-12  8:52     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 22:37 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-11 22:42   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 22:51     ` Miles Bader
2009-08-11 23:04       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 23:30         ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-08-11 23:34           ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-08-11 23:41             ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 23:48               ` Miles Bader
2009-08-11 23:39           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  0:27             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-08-12  0:33               ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  0:54                 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-12  0:59                   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  1:24                 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen

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