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Subject: Re: The implementation of `make-string' is in C
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() 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?