From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Understanding dotimes skipping by 2
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:23:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efdd7qv1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0011E5D8-A8DD-4829-AB06-502E14122CF7@scratch.space> (message from Van L on Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:50:12 +1000)
> From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:50:12 +1000
>
>
> The 1+ syntactic sugar seems to cost performance by needing more lines of code
Please compare the actual performance, not the LOC. The correlation
between those two is not necessarily high.
Also, arith_driver is a function with non-zero LOC, and you should
include that in the metrics, at least.
> and it is less general in power to process the argument list if it were to be extended like (+ x 1 2 3).
Of course it's less general: otherwise, why have a separate function?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-28 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-27 22:48 Understanding dotimes skipping by 2 Tim Johnson
2018-09-28 1:29 ` Van L
2018-09-28 2:56 ` Tim Johnson
2018-09-28 9:11 ` Joost Kremers
2018-09-28 9:50 ` Van L
2018-09-28 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-09-28 12:26 ` Van L
2018-09-28 17:47 ` Tim Johnson
2018-09-28 18:16 ` Noam Postavsky
[not found] <mailman.1418.1538089091.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-27 23:14 ` Marco Wahl
2018-09-27 23:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-27 23:59 ` Tim Johnson
2018-09-27 23:32 ` Tim Johnson
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