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Re: mapcar or notmapcar

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:01 am
by gugamilare
Rationals also might grow up a lot (in used space) if you use lots of multiplications.

Re: mapcar or notmapcar

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:34 am
by findinglisp
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.