Re: What to do for faster `remove-duplicates'?

[Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>]

But that nreverse could be optimized out if the first loop followed a
`while'+`setcdr' strategy like the second.

2015-05-06 19:31 GMT+01:00 Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>:
>>> Looks good, please install.
>>
>> Not so good as now it is no more destructive for a seq > 100.
>
> Just pushed the following:
>
> modified   lisp/subr.el
> @@ -424,12 +424,12 @@ one is kept."
>            (unless (gethash elt hash)
>              (puthash elt elt hash)
>              (push elt res)))
> -        (nreverse res))
> +        (setcdr list (cdr (nreverse res))))
>      (let ((tail list))
>        (while tail
>          (setcdr tail (delete (car tail) (cdr tail)))
> -        (setq tail (cdr tail))))
> -    list))
> +        (setq tail (cdr tail)))))
> +  list)