Subject: Re: Performance tuning
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 06 Dec 2000 01:57:12 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3185056632307490@naggum.net>

* Gareth McCaughan
| It would be interesting to know whether it's easier to make an MD5
| perform well in CMU CL, which can do a pretty good job (better than
| any other CL, I think) of handling machine-word-sized integers.  Of
| course, the likely result would be an implementation that works well
| under CMU CL and appallingly badly on other Common Lisps, which might
| be a pity.

  I don't think that's a pity.  As long as we can specify the behavior
  such that it can be used the same way in every implementation, I don't
  care how implementation-specific the implementation is.
  
#:Erik
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