Re: streams are cool, you could stream virtually anything!

[Damien Cassou]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
>> I just added a function `stream-regexp' to stream.el to stream the search of
>> a regexp in a buffer:
>
> This is amazing, Nicolas! I've wanted this exact construction so many times!
>
> Do you know the memory behavior of doing it this way? That is, for 1000 hits,
> how does the number of cons's allocated compare to the iterative approach?

I think it does not cost anything because nothing is stored in memory.
It's just a different way to write the while loop.

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