Re: Compilation to native

[Matthew Mundell]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The loop _is_ purely computational.
>
> I was fooled by the indentation, which makes it appear
> that the call to current-time-string is inside the loop.
> See?
>
>     (defun silly-loop (n)
>       "Return time before and after N iterations of a loop."
>       (let ((t1 (current-time-string)))
>       (while (> (setq n (1- n))
>                             0))
>           (list t1 (current-time-string))))
>
> Anyway, such a small speedup is not worth the trouble.

OK, thanks for considering it.