From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The implementation of `make-string' is in C
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:06:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lioouftc.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F27F0E2.8020605@dogan.se> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:14 +0100")
Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> writes:
> Why is `make-string' implemented in C? Why not something like:
>
> (apply 'string (make-list LENGTH INIT))
That creates a lot of cons garbage.
Andreas.
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2012-01-31 13:47 The implementation of `make-string' is in C Deniz Dogan
2012-01-31 14:06 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-01-31 14:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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