[Ecls-list] Improving CLOS?

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Ram Krishnan <kriyative at gmail.com> wrote:

> The boot time initialization of CLOS in ECL is of particular interest
> to me. Do you have you any thoughts or suggestions on how to reduce or
> eliminate the need for the CONVERT-ONE-CLASS call in the fixup pass?
>

Sure: after ecl_min is created and it loads bare.lsp, externalize the tree
of classes in a way that can be easily and efficiently rebuilt by the C
core, without going through all the hassle of using defclass and friends.
Not a minor change, though.

Juanjo

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