[Ecls-list] ECL + ContextL?

[Alexander Gavrilov]

> The comments say several times that compilation at runtime is very  
> expensive in ECL. How very is 'very'? The idea is that these  
> compilations are usually done only once, for functionality that is  
> used often later on. Is it still not economical to do this?

Every time you call compile or compile-file it writes several
temporary files, calls gcc and linker, and loads the resulting
DLL. It also writes a few lines of text to the output stream
about all these actions. It's not something you would want to
do unconditionally for every method.

Alexander