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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> I hate to point this out, but you actually tagged it ELEPHNAT-0-3-0. Anyway! I am trying it out</FONT><BR>
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Dohh!!!<BR>
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Sorry about that; I will leave that tag there are put a properly spelled one on the same set of files<BR>
later today.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">now. There seem to be some efficiency issues... caching the result of make-form-key could actually</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">save 10% of cpu time in my setup... so I'm going to take a look at them once I get it running.</FONT><BR>
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Thank you. I am generally of the school of not optimizing early; my own application which drives <BR>
this has never broken a noticable sweat; perhaps just because it is unpopular.<BR>
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If you are using a relational database back-end, a huge improvement would be to modify the <BR>
existing serializer to produce a character-writable stream rather than a byte stream and eliminate<BR>
the base64 encoding that I put in. The the base64 encoding/decoding itself is not a problem; <BR>
but it probably doubles or triples the number of bytes that have to be stored in the database,<BR>
and that I/O is probably the dominant cost in the system.<BR>
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I am not cavalier about this, but I have to choose my battles wisely. For example, I consider<BR>
getting Elephant to work the Unicode based SBCL far more important than even a 3-fold <BR>
improvement in performance at this point.<BR>
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However, I encourage you to do more great work, like the bug fix you made, and I will attempt<BR>
to incorporate it promptly.<BR>
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I also would like to know other peoples experience with the 0.3.0 release. I tested it thoroughly<BR>
in my machine; but that is only one setup.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="5"><FONT COLOR="#000000">-- Dan Knapp</FONT></FONT><BR>
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