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From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does adding a useless copy-sequence and discarding the result make my ELisp 40 times faster?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 00:24:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <77900613-3b45-52f4-5770-38fe6f27e69c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e96962c4-f0b4-9769-87c3-94548c44ce22@gmail.com>

On 2017-03-25 00:06, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote:
> * Why does running additional, supposedly useless code speed things up so much? (1)

Interestingly, it turns out that (copy-sequence) isn't needed: instead, it's enough to use (sleep-for 0.000001) (or even (sleep-for cl-least-positive-normalized-float)) to get the 40x speedup.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-25  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-25  4:06 Why does adding a useless copy-sequence and discarding the result make my ELisp 40 times faster? Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-25  4:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2017-03-25  7:05   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-25 10:38     ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 13:49       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-25 16:38         ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 17:02           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-25 17:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-25 17:40               ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 17:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-25 17:37             ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 13:45     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-25 10:47   ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 13:54     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-26 13:14 ` Stephen Leake
2017-03-26 13:35   ` Clément Pit-Claudel

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