Ken Tilton  <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
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| > Geez, my first CL macro and I already committed the worst offense in
| > CL even though it was only 2 lines long. No problem, I'm here to
| > learn.
| > 
| > It was of course tongue-in-cheek, but the reason I chose a macro was
| > for efficiency. I take it from your comment that reasonable CL
| > implementations will inline the equivalent function (ignore hyphen
| > inertia for the sake of discussion), so I was prematurely optimizing.
| > Is that true?
| 
| Call me when the profiler says the function call overhead of a 
| lowercasep function is the bottleneck in your real-world application. 
| I'll be waiting by the phone.
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But don't place that call until *after* you've tried
"DECLAIM INLINE" and/or "DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO"...


-Rob

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