16 Nov
2010
16 Nov
'10
10:11 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 13:15, Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus@random-state.net> wrote:
Of course, readability and maintainability trump efficiency any time, as long as the code if efficient enough for its intended purpose.
I'm not sure that it's entirely right to say slot-value will definitely be faster. It may be faster in the cases you mention on SBCL, but in one of our Allegro CL-based products, we just saw a 5-6% improvement in performance on very common operations when we switched from using slot-value to accessors (I think, almost exclusively). That the change that made stuff faster also made it more readable makes me very happy. -- Andreas Fuchs, (http://|im:asf@|mailto:asf@)boinkor.net, antifuchs