From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Always using let* Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:47:27 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ppexemlc.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87fvfukmso.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410742226 1681 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2014 00:50:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:50:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 02:50:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTKUl-0000EH-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:50:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56635 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTKUk-0007Vj-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:50:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SiAEdkhToggQqITM5cOu9wYGv/4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207619 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99893 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Lisps such as Common Lisp were specifically designed > with this parallel evaluation in mind. The spec (and > CLTL(2)) CLTL(2) = "Common Lisp The Language", 2nd edition, by Guy Steele. Here it is, as a PDF - 1097 pages, according to 'exiftool': http://www.lispmachine.net/books/common_lisp_the_language.pdf > Whether a given Common Lisp implementation takes > advantage of this inherent parallelism is optional. > Likewise for the other explicitly parallel constructs > in CL. > > For `psetf', for example, CLTL says that "the > assignments of new values are done in parallel. ..." Again, what do you mean by "parallel"? Is it parallel (i.e., truly concurrent) computation on different CPUs (cores), or is it some other kind of parallelism or pipelining? -- underground experts united