Scott Burson  <FSet.SLB@gmail.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| > With this change, (REDUCE #'+ NUMBER-LIST :MAX-ARITY T) could be
| > implemented *VERY* efficiently, and could even be coded by the
| > compiler to use whatever SIMD or vector (e.g., SSE2/3) instructions
| > were available on the platform.
| 
| Why can't (REDUCE #'+ NUMBER-LIST) be compiled just as efficiently now?
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Hmmm... You're right, it could. And, in fact, could also be for
any function whose signature is lexically apparent to the compiler.

But :MAX-ARGS might still be useful if the REDUCE call were inside
a separately-compiled routine that accepted a function argument...


-Rob

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