efficiency of let vs. let*

From: Alexandru Harsanyi (harsanyi_at_mac.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:53:48 GMT

Just out of curiosity I looked at the eval implementation for GNU
Emacs (eval.c file), and noticed that the implementation of let* seems
more efficient that the implementation of let. The later involves
allocating a temporary array to hold the values from evaluating the
forms before binding them to the variables.

I'm wondering if this is true in all LISP implementations?

I don't think the speed difference between let and let* very big, so
it doesn't really matter, but I'm just curious :-)

Thanks,
Alex.

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