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From: andreasg@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Andreas Girgensohn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Summing a list
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Date: 26 Oct 88 03:15:25 GMT
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A better way is the following form because eval invokes the
interpreter and produces a lot of garbage.  The dolist example should
be much faster in compiled code.

  (apply '+ numlist)

The difference is that apply doesn't evaluate the elements of the list
whereas eval does it.  It's no difference is this case because numbers
(the elements of the list) are evaluate to themselves.  

Andreas Girgensohn
andreasg@boulder.colorado.edu