From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:34:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a83rszt1.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170726202253.GA16445@tuxteam.de
> Not the Pope here, by a long stretch, but the
> reason is in the (Elisp) doc ("6 Sequences,
> Arrays, Vectors"): a vector is constant access
> time for the nth element, while on a list you
> need time proportional to the number n (i.e.
> you have to "walk down" the list to access its
> nth element (or rather, the little Lisp gremlin
> has to do it for you).
Yes, constant access time instead of linear.
Different data structures.
Temporal complexity... or perhaps spacial?
I don't remember.
But *how* does this happen?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-26 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-26 6:20 Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string? Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-26 6:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 6:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 7:20 ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-07-26 8:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-26 16:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 20:22 ` tomas
2017-07-26 20:34 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-07-26 20:51 ` John Mastro
2017-07-26 23:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 18:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-26 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-26 20:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-27 6:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-27 12:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-08 4:56 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-08-08 6:32 ` John Ankarström
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