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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to draw cons cell diagrams?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:28:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fu4gtdjk.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.11448.1522453342.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-31 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11410.1522393467.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-03-30 20:27 ` How to draw cons cell diagrams? Emanuel Berg
2018-03-30 23:42   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11448.1522453342.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-03-31 16:28     ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-03-30  7:03 Marcin Borkowski

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