map and filter with list comprehensions

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Håkan Stenholm <hakan.stenholm@REDACTED> writes:

> If memory serves right, the reason used to be that list comprehension 
> was slower than the recursiv version - this was true in R6 (R5 ?) and 
> earlier, but nowdays there should be no major difference.
> 

Yes, that is correct.

Nowadays lists comprehensions are transformed to a recursive function.

List comprehensions used to be very slow because the were transformed
to a recursive fun, and fun calls too used to be a lot slower than
they are today.

/Bjorn
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