Re: Understanding dotimes skipping by 2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:50:12 +1000
> 
> 
> The 1+ syntactic sugar seems to cost performance by needing more lines of code

Please compare the actual performance, not the LOC.  The correlation
between those two is not necessarily high.

Also, arith_driver is a function with non-zero LOC, and you should
include that in the metrics, at least.

> and it is less general in power to process the argument list if it were to be 
> extended like (+ x 1 2 3).

Of course it's less general: otherwise, why have a separate function?