From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `append' vs. `nconc'
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:26:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9ixtor9.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-6B4074.21531731122015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> The thing here is, when it is very obvious and
>> everything is small and easy to handle, what is the
>> actual gain in time and space not using `append'?
>>
>> Answer:
>>
>> -> 0
>>
>> But OK, as a matter of principle it can be a cool
>> thing to know/do.
>
> NCONC was created at least 40 years ago, when
> computers were slow and had very little memory (a
> modern cellphone is has the power of a roomful of
> 70's-era mainframes). And garbage collection was
> also very slow (generational GC hadn't been
> developed yet).
>
> So optimizations like NCONC could be very useful
> back then. These days, the benefit is probably
> very little.
Q.E.D. :)
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-28 16:35 Error: Setting the shell in sh-mode via a local variable does not work Johannes Kastl
2015-12-29 1:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-29 18:33 ` Johannes Kastl
2015-12-30 14:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-30 15:15 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-12-30 15:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-30 17:42 ` Johannes Kastl
2015-12-30 15:19 ` Teemu Likonen
2015-12-30 15:41 ` `append' vs. `nconc' (was: Re: Error: Setting the shell in sh-mode via a local variable does not work) Emanuel Berg
2015-12-30 16:37 ` `append' vs. `nconc' Teemu Likonen
2015-12-31 3:37 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1400.1451533083.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31 3:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31 4:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 9:22 ` tomas
2015-12-31 18:48 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1402.1451534421.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31 5:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31 3:50 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1401.1451533833.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31 5:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31 7:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 9:30 ` tomas
2015-12-31 17:56 ` side effects, list sharing [was: `append' vs. `nconc'] Drew Adams
2015-12-31 19:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 19:15 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-01 13:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 18:51 ` `append' vs. `nconc' Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1440.1451588113.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-01 2:53 ` Barry Margolin
2016-01-01 13:26 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1406.1451546036.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31 8:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31 7:31 ` Teemu Likonen
2015-12-31 18:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 20:04 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-01-01 13:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-01 14:02 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-01-01 18:31 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1438.1451586967.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-01 6:25 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-01-01 13:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-01 15:04 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1353.1451490125.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-30 16:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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