Re: [PATCH] Add new lisp function length= with bytecode support

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-03-06 15:36, Gdobbins wrote:
>> Why add length= as a primitive? Why is it important enough to
>> justify that?
> 
> … I don't really see a purpose in using nthcdr like you have in a
> lisp implementation of length=, it isn't any better than just using
> length directly since it requires just as much linked list traversal.

Isn't Richard's code much faster for long lists and small Ns thank taking the 
length of the list?

Clément.