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From: rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Summing a list
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Date: 25 Oct 88 20:50:02 GMT
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Answering half of my own question.
(EVAL (CONS '+ NUMLIST)) 
is 700 times faster than summing useing a DOLIST.

BUT this was EVALed code.
In compiled code the DOLIST was about 15% faster than 
(EVAL (CONS '+ NUMLIST)) which (no surprise here) wasn't any faster
			 compiled as apposed to evaled.
Is there a better way?? (I think there has got to be)

Brynn Rogers      rogers@src.honeywell.com
P.S. I apoligize for being a novice poster.  But I have to learn somtime :-)