[Cl-perec-devel] Optimization question

[Attila Lendvai]

> variant, but is it possible to optimize it so that it results in a
> single select like the first one?

someone somewhere needs to add a cond that dispatches on the interesting types.

perec has not much chance, because it doesn't really know what are the
possible/interesting types to dispatch on (and collecting runtime
information and dynamically recompiling is beyond the scope of a lib
without the environment supporting it)

so, i suggest to create a macro for which you can give a list of types
and a code body, and builds up the dispatch for you. something similar
to sb-imp::string-dispatch:

(defmacro string-dispatch ((&rest types) var &body body)
  (let ((fun (sb!xc:gensym "STRING-DISPATCH-FUN")))
    `(flet ((,fun (,var)
              , at body))
       (declare (inline ,fun))
       (etypecase ,var
         ,@(loop for type in types
                 ;; TRULY-THE allows transforms to take advantage of the type
                 ;; information without need for constraint propagation.
                 collect `(,type (,fun (truly-the ,type ,var))))))))

-- 
 attila