;;; There recently was a discussion about using arrays with suitably-declared ;;; element-type s to store floats without needing boxing and unboxing. ;;; This is obviously quite a hassle, as and when one wants to use. ;;; ;;; But, this is lisp and macros are (as always) ready to leap to the rescue. ;;; This code is Copyright Ingvar Mattsson, 2005 ingvar@hexapodia.net ;;; You are free to use and/or modify this code as you see fit, as long ;;; as this comment block is retained and modifications noted by at least ;;; the modifyer's name. (defpackage #:net.hexapodia.fastfloats (:nicknames #:fastfloats) (:use #:cl) (:export #:double-float-let #:single-float-let :float-let)) (in-package #:net.hexapodia.fastfloats)

(defun float-let-expander (type initform body) (let ((syms (loop for spec in initform for n from 0 if (symbolp spec) collect (cons spec n) else collect (cons (car spec) n))) (inits (loop for spec in initform unless (symbolp spec) collect (list (gensym) spec))) (storage (gensym))) `(let ,(loop for (sym spec) in inits collect (list sym (cadr spec))) (let ((,storage (make-array ,(length syms) :element-type ',type :initial-element (coerce 0.0 ',type)))) (symbol-macrolet ,(loop for (sym . n) in syms collect (list sym (list 'aref storage n))) ; Init section ,@(loop for (sym val) in inits collect (list 'setf (car val) sym)) ,@body)))))

(defmacro double-float-let (initform &body body) (float-let-expander 'double-float initform body))

(defmacro single-float-let (initform &body body) (float-let-expander 'single-float initform body))

(defmacro float-let (initform &body body) (float-let-expander *read-default-float-format* initform body)) ;;; //Ingvar