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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Always using let*
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:28:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioko8qnd.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8930.1410808006.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> which is usually understood as "use parallel
> processing", aka "make use of multiple computational
> units at the same time".

Yes - this is my definition of parallelism as well:
true concurrency, not perceived (as in preemption,
context switching, and so on).

The question is: does any Lisp do this with `let'?

If yes, that Lisp could do it partly with let* as well
only that would imply an overhead to sort out where
there are precedence constraints.

The appeal of doing it for let is that it wouldn't be
any fuss - just distribute, compute, and execute the
body all set. But if no one did it, some practical
obstacle must still have gotten into the way...

-- 
underground experts united


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-15 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-14 19:46 Always using let* Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-14 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-15 16:15   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8924.1410797740.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-15 18:01     ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-15 22:20       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-16 12:05         ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-16 22:40           ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-18 17:02             ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-18 21:05               ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-16 14:23     ` sokobania.01
2014-09-16 16:41       ` Drew Adams
2014-09-16 20:49       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-16 22:45       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.8998.1410901776.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-16 22:48         ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-17  1:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-17  1:18             ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-14 21:40 ` Joe Fineman
     [not found] ` <mailman.8868.1410729956.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-14 21:41   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-14 22:11   ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-14 22:56     ` Drew Adams
2014-09-14 22:41   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-14 23:06     ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.8871.1410736002.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-15  0:47       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-15  2:12         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-15  2:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-15  2:59         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-15 12:31           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-15 16:15             ` Drew Adams
2014-09-15 19:05               ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]               ` <mailman.8930.1410808006.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-15 22:28                 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-09-16  0:38                   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-15 13:14           ` Barry Margolin

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