Re: Turning Gnus groups into real objects

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I'd like to turn groups into real objects

I think that can make a fair bit of sense.

> using EIEIO.

But I have to warn you that EIEIO objects are pretty costly, i.e. slow
to construct (which goes through `make-instance`) and slow to access
their slots (which goes through `slot-value`).  Depending on your code's
structure it might not matter too much, or it might render the code
unacceptably slow.

If creation of those objects and/or access to their slots is expected to
be frequent enough to matter, you might be better off using
`cl-defstruct` instead, which is much more lightweight and will likely
serve you just as well here.


        Stefan