On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler tcr@freebits.de wrote:
Erik Huelsmann writes:
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alessio Stalla alessiostalla@gmail.com Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [j-devel] Improving startup time: sanity check
This brought me to the conclusion that our startup process could be much faster, if we decided to delay function object creation until the function is actually used: we would eliminate the need to construct function objects until they're used instead of creating them when their siblings are requested to be loaded.
I haven't followed the actual issue, but the autoloading stuff makes abcl-svn feel pretty unresponsive at times, for example when it has to load in the actual pretty-printer code when trying to print a backtrace.
If you want to add more laziness please make it optional.
We could add a function, say system:resolve-all-autoloads, that you can call in your init file. Then abcl's startup will be pretty long, but later it won't be unresponsive.