mapcar or notmapcar

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gugamilare
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Re: mapcar or notmapcar

Post by gugamilare » Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:01 am

Rationals also might grow up a lot (in used space) if you use lots of multiplications.

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Re: mapcar or notmapcar

Post by findinglisp » Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:34 am

gugamilare wrote:Rationals also might grow up a lot (in used space) if you use lots of multiplications.
Yes, but if I remember right, implementations are required to reduce them if possible. In other words, they might be large, but not necessarily naively large.
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