From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: What does "lacks a prefix" mean?
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:33:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60644083-db64-4b56-9f43-e2b461138d83@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<barmar-500871.19271109072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>>
> > And non-parallelizable theoretically :)
>
> Regular let isn't parallelizable. It specifies that the value
> expressions are evaluated in order.
>
> The only difference between the two is the environment within which
> later expressions are evaluated.
FWIW, Common Lisp specifies that "let performs the bindings
in parallel and let* does them sequentially."
That is theoretical, just a restatement that `let' bindings
are independent. But it means that yes, they *could* be
evaluated in parallel (because they are independent).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-10 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 16:32 What does "lacks a prefix" mean? BobD
2015-07-08 16:45 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-08 16:59 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-07-08 17:10 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-07-08 18:17 ` BobD
2015-07-08 18:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-08 18:45 ` BobD
2015-07-08 23:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-09 15:23 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-07-09 22:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-10 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-11 22:42 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.6748.1436654668.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-11 23:58 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-13 12:26 ` Filipp Gunbin
[not found] ` <mailman.6685.1436547891.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-10 18:27 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] ` <mailman.6612.1436455429.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-09 23:27 ` Barry Margolin
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2015-07-10 0:49 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-10 5:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-10 14:42 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] ` <<barmar-2BC802.10421910072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2015-07-10 14:53 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <<barmar-500871.19271109072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2015-07-10 0:33 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2015-07-09 14:01 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-09 14:10 ` Rusi
2015-07-09 22:27 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-07-10 3:10 ` Rusi
2015-07-10 16:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-09 22:19 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <<barmar-F23189.10014209072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2015-07-09 15:33 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-12 1:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-12 16:59 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-13 0:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-13 7:26 ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-13 23:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-14 6:23 ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-14 21:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-19 0:59 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-07-28 0:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-30 1:40 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.7638.1438220428.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-30 2:49 ` Rusi
2015-07-30 2:53 ` Rusi
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