Re: Setting keys/values in alists

Subject: Re: Setting keys/values in alists
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 02 Nov 2000 04:12:36 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3182127156572994@naggum.net>

* Robert Monfera <monfera@fisec.com>
| What's the point of using defstruct when we have classes in the
| standard?  A struct is like an optimized object with certain
| restrictions (no change-class etc.).

  Well, you answered your own question.  Structures are exceptionally
  efficient in Allegro CL, which open-codes all slot accessors with
  the proper declarations.  I use them for time-critical stuff that I
  have tuned and tested and played with using classes and the class
  slot accessors are measurably too expensive.

#:Erik
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