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Re: How to iterate over properties in a plist?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: How to iterate over properties in a plist?
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 18:49:38 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> There's no difference between a-lists and p-list:

Far from it, there are many reasons to prefer alists:

- there's twice as much memory parallelism in alists.
- plists need to be "parsed" in order to figure out if an element is a key
  or a value.
- plists come much later in the dictionary.


        Stefan




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