[slime-devel] Re: what does SWANK compile??

[Alex Mizrahi]

(message (Hello 'Harald)
(you :wrote  :on '(Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:11:59 +0100 (CET)))
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 HHO> As to why, well, slime is the front end and swank is the back end, and
 HHO> the two need to talk the proper protocol.  Swank is compiled for
 HHO> efficiency reasons.

well, i meant what does it compile when it's already loaded -- in response 
to events in REPL.

i've found single place where it does (compile nil:

(let ((regex-hash (make-hash-table :test #'equal)))
  (defun compiled-regex (regex-string)
    (or (gethash regex-string regex-hash)
        (setf (gethash regex-string regex-hash)
              (if (zerop (length regex-string))
                  (lambda (s) (check-type s string) t)
                  (compile nil (slime-nregex:regex-compile 
regex-string)))))))

i suspect it's highly likely that ABCL chokes on attempts to compile some 
regex function.. but it's not that simple -- possibly it's superposition of 
several bugs in ABCL :).

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(With-best-regards '(Alex Mizrahi) :aka 'killer_storm)
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