[Ecls-list] Improving CLOS?

[Andy Hefner]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2547
>
> These guys implemented a variant of CLOS using C and got comparable speeds
> to C++ and Objective C, and orders of magnitude faster dispatch in many
> cases. It might be a nice source of inspiration to improve ECL's dispatch
> mechanism... or maybe not, if the MOP is the source of all performance
> penalties.

IMO, ECL's non-CLOS performance is sufficiently lackluster that
special effort spent optimizing CLOS would be misdirected.