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Re: Always using let*
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Always using let* |
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Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:22:54 -0400 |
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> Lisps such as Common Lisp were specifically designed with this
> parallel evaluation in mind. The spec (and CLTL(2)) specifically
> emphasizes the inherent parallelism (independence) here that
> implies the *possibility* of parallel evaluation.
I simply claim that this is bogus. Only the var-binding is "parallel", not
the computation of each value. So it's a "parallel binding" semantics,
but it has nothing to do with efficient execution on multiple
execution units.
Stefan
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