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Re: design ponderings: plist to alist
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: design ponderings: plist to alist |
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Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:20:37 -0400 |
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> Actually, an a-list contains the same number of cons cells and requires
> the same number of accesses as a p-list. I wouldn't say it's more
> succinct to computer than p-list.
It's half the depth, tho, so you get twice as much "memory
parallelism". And you avoid "parsing" the plist. This means you can
use regular list operations like mapcar, delq, ...
Stefan