[elephant-devel] Untangling "serialize"

[Evrim Ulu]

midfield at gmail.com wrote:
> i was trying to be smarter than the compiler -- i don't remember if
> PCL can do runtime profiling directed dispatch tables -- i attempted
> to generate the optimal dispatch table "by hand."  as moon would say,
> given a sufficiently smart compiler.....the generic function version
> would be better.  probably ACL and Lispworks are ahead in this way
> than the PCL-based lisps.
>   

SBCL generic function dispatcher is faster than function + typecase.

evrim.