From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to draw cons cell diagrams? Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:28:31 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86fu4gtdjk.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86o9j5tikl.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522513706 1045 195.159.176.226 (31 Mar 2018 16:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:28:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 18:28:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f2JMb-0000Al-FB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2JOe-0001kE-RL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:30:28 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: Mq3CdlVpWThKpW6fSn+6ow.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:RR/MAUa9a+fVNZHNjQhDn1bDuTw= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222185 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116303 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> In all my Elisp I have only 8 "cons". > > You might have only 8 calls to `cons'. > But your code likely uses thousands of conses > (aka cons cells). Well, you might have written only 8 programs in C, but your OS is in C, and almost all the tools are as well. Or, you might have done binary/bitwise arithmetics only 2^3 times, but even typing this message, this has happened qudrazillions of times! (Actually, I have no idea how many times it has happened. But because I asked, it is probably either really low or really high.) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573