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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: byte-opt.el addition - optimize list of compile-time constants
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:34:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je653boj4q.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412082133.12630.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:33:12 +0200")

Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:

> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> I seriously wonder how much would break if this optimization were
>> implemented for 'list'.  My suspicion is that people don't commonly
>> apply 'eq' to lists in the first place.
>
> You are very wrong here.  While it will hardly break sane code,
> `eq' is _very_ often applied to cons cells, e.g. lists.

Also 'list' is sometimes intentionally used to create a new cons that can
be changed by side effect.  If it were optimized to a constant the side
effect would now change a literal.

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08  9:21 byte-opt.el addition - optimize list of compile-time constants Zack Weinberg
2004-12-08 16:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08 18:59   ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-08 19:27     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08 19:45       ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-08 19:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08 20:14           ` Nick Roberts
2004-12-08 22:47       ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-08 23:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-09  1:20           ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09  2:11             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-09  2:33               ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09  2:46                 ` Miles Bader
2004-12-09  3:08                   ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09  3:28                     ` Miles Bader
2004-12-09  3:48                       ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09  4:04                         ` Miles Bader
2004-12-09  4:41                           ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09  4:52                             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-09  5:33                               ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09  5:39                                 ` Miles Bader
2004-12-09  6:49                                   ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09 15:22                                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-12-10  5:50                                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-09  9:22                                 ` David Kastrup
2004-12-09  4:54                             ` Miles Bader
2004-12-09  9:20                             ` David Kastrup
2004-12-09  4:35                 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-09  4:55                   ` Zack Weinberg
2004-12-09  5:13                     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-09  9:10           ` David Kastrup
2004-12-08 19:33     ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-12-09 10:34       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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