From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Markus Triska <markus.triska@gmx.at>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: weird desktop.el change
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:20:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhcrkxewl.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wt0g2oog.fsf@gmx.at> (Markus Triska's message of "Fri\, 13 Apr 2007 19\:02\:07 +0200")
>> The process of substituting "mapc" for "mapcar" when the result
>> isn't used is not only a hugely widespread tweak in the lisp
>> community (a "no brainer" as you might call it), indeed it's an
>> obvious optimization for even a very stupid lisp compiler...
> Available with this patch:
> 2007-04-13 Markus Triska <markus.triska@gmx.at>
> * emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el (byte-optimize-form-code-walker): rewrite
> `mapcar' to `mapc' when called for effect
Please, let's not add this before the release.
Stefan
PS: I'm not even sure it's a good optimization: in 99% of the cases it would
be better to educate the programmer about mapc by emitting a warning, and in
99% of those cases, it'd be even better to replace the mapc(ar) by
a dolist loop.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 0:05 weird desktop.el change Miles Bader
2007-04-11 0:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-11 1:25 ` Miles Bader
2007-04-11 1:58 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-11 15:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-04-11 19:46 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-11 23:22 ` Miles Bader
2007-04-13 17:02 ` Markus Triska
2007-04-13 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-04-13 19:32 ` Markus Triska
2007-04-14 3:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-15 2:36 ` Markus Triska
2007-04-15 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
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