Francogrex <franco@grex.org> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| > Francogrex �<fra...@grex.org> wrote:
| > | I wrote a function which loops through a long list of strings (about a
| > | 10000) modifies some according to some specified rules and finally it
| > | groups similar strings together. When this is run (even loaded from a
| > | compiled .fas file), it takes about 2 hours to complete...
| > +---------------
| > Uh... I hate to ask this [but will anyway]...
| > Did you compile it first?!?
| 
| I wrote it, saved as myprog.lisp and then did the
| (compile-file "c:/myprog.lisp")
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Oh, o.k., just checking.  "Never mind..."  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

p.s. The only reason I asked is that it's more common than you might
expect for people to start asking here about performance issues
*without* compiling first, so unless the OP explicitly says that
they *did* compile... well... ;-}

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