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Re: Is X'ABCD' notation of general interest?


From: Thien-Thi Nguyen
Subject: Re: Is X'ABCD' notation of general interest?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:12:47 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

() Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
() Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:25:58 +0200

   If you try to micro-optimize, you really should do some
   benchmarking... ;)

   `string-to-number' is a C function.  It is nearly impossible to write
   anything faster in Lisp.  On my system `string-to-number' is more than 10x
   faster than your function.

Cool.

thi




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