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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 1ecd350 2/2: Evaluate some unnecessarily quoted lambdas
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 19:08:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfkg8f6x.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv366oe6q3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:18:50 -0400")

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

>> -	(lambda-code (byte-compile '(lambda ()))))
>> +        (lambda-code (byte-compile (lambda ()))))
>
> I can't believe I'm doing that, but: this hunk is wrong!
>
> `byte-compile` takes source code as input, not values.  It does go to
> the trouble of trying to handle the case where we pass it a function
> value that's not yet compiled because it's an important use-case in
> practice,

(Also it's advertised in its docstring.)

> but it's better to avoid it since the above means that we'll
> first turn '(lambda () ()) into a closure object which `byte-compile`
> then has to convert back to something like (lambda () ()).

Ah okay.  I admit the main reason I thought the hunk was okay is because
(byte-compile (lambda ())) and (byte-compile '(lambda ())) produce the
same byte-code.

Thanks for catching that, now reverted.

Revert last change in benchmark.el
0792f8e4f0 2020-06-21 19:01:40 +0100
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=0792f8e4f0de2328c57d552a5845bdf77265a971

-- 
Basil



      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-21 18:08 UTC|newest]

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2020-06-21 16:18   ` master 1ecd350 2/2: Evaluate some unnecessarily quoted lambdas Stefan Monnier
2020-06-21 18:08     ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]

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