Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[João Távora]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 2:41 PM Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I don't really use seq for its polymorphism.

Few people do, in core 0.

> From what I see in other people's code, this is by far the most frequent
> reason to use seq- functions.

That and the fact they aren't aware they're anywhere from 5x to
10x slower, sometimes more (I measured 18x for decently realistic),
than what they could be.

Also the fact they don't know cl-seq.el provides all that with
a much more versatile interface, and frequently much better
performance.

João