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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Subject: Re: Pass by reference
Date: 2000/11/17
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* Joe Marshall <jrm@content-integrity.com>
| A slightly more clever compiler might notice that i and index can be
| shared:
|   (loop for index from 0 below (length v1)
|      summing (* (aref v1 index) (aref v2 index)))

  Wouldn't a slightly _less_ "clever" programmer do this right away?

#:Erik
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