Re: Why does adding a useless copy-sequence and discarding the result make my ELisp 40 times faster?

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-03-25 00:06, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote:
> * Why does running additional, supposedly useless code speed things up so 
> much? (1)

Interestingly, it turns out that (copy-sequence) isn't needed: instead, it's 
enough to use (sleep-for 0.000001) (or even (sleep-for 
cl-least-positive-normalized-float)) to get the 40x speedup.