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Add 'take' list operation [PATCH]

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 56521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56521: Add 'take' list operation [PATCH]
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:00:17 +0200

Not much argument here; pushed to master. A couple of notes:

I went for the C implementation of `ntake` because I already had the code, and because an elisp implementation would be slower than `take` for short lists or small N, and there very point of `ntake` is speed.

`nthcdr` has some elaborate code for handling bignum arguments which makes some kind of sense since it's defined as an iteration of `cdr`. Currently, `take` and `ntake` require fixnums because bignums didn't seem to be worth the trouble.

Before closing the bug, I'll make the new code pay their way by adding some calls. `seq-take` is first in line for a makeover.

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