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From: mujica@ra.cs.ucla.edu (S. Mujica)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: CLOS speed
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Date: 25 Oct 89 23:18:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: barmar@kulla's message of 25 Oct 89 06:41:04 GMT


on 25 Oct 89 06:41:04 GMT,
barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin) said:

> Note that you shouldn't expect generic function calls to be as efficient as
> normal function calls.  Remember that CLOS provides extra functionality per
> line of code.  Naturally, there are some tradeoffs.

What about setting the value of a slot?  I have noticed that running
PCL on Lucid 3.0,  it takes about 30 times longer to set the value of
a slot than to set the value of local variable.

Sergio Mujica		mujica@cs.ucla.edu
Computer Science Department, UCLA