* The implementation of `make-string' is in C
@ 2012-01-31 13:47 Deniz Dogan
2012-01-31 14:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-01-31 14:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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From: Deniz Dogan @ 2012-01-31 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Why is `make-string' implemented in C? Why not something like:
(apply 'string (make-list LENGTH INIT))
?
Deniz
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* Re: The implementation of `make-string' is in C
2012-01-31 13:47 The implementation of `make-string' is in C Deniz Dogan
@ 2012-01-31 14:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-01-31 14:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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From: Andreas Schwab @ 2012-01-31 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Deniz Dogan; +Cc: emacs-devel
Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> writes:
> Why is `make-string' implemented in C? Why not something like:
>
> (apply 'string (make-list LENGTH INIT))
That creates a lot of cons garbage.
Andreas.
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* Re: The implementation of `make-string' is in C
2012-01-31 13:47 The implementation of `make-string' is in C Deniz Dogan
2012-01-31 14:06 ` Andreas Schwab
@ 2012-01-31 14:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2012-01-31 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Deniz Dogan; +Cc: emacs-devel
() Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
() Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:14 +0100
Why is `make-string' implemented in C? Why not something like:
(apply 'string (make-list LENGTH INIT))
?
Did you try this on your source tree?
What happened?
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