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Re: How to draw cons cell diagrams?
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: How to draw cons cell diagrams? |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:28:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams wrote:
>> In all my Elisp I have only 8 "cons".
>
> You might have only 8 calls to `cons'.
> But your code likely uses thousands of conses
> (aka cons cells).
Well, you might have written only 8 programs in
C, but your OS is in C, and almost all the
tools are as well.
Or, you might have done binary/bitwise
arithmetics only 2^3 times, but even typing
this message, this has happened qudrazillions
of times!
(Actually, I have no idea how many times it has
happened. But because I asked, it is probably
either really low or really high.)
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