From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Native code generation and gcc
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 13:31:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmvg2wc7t.fsf-monnier+gmane.lisp.guile.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAA2XvwLh8DrUhFSXM76d+hREHiRp4VU9-fVVh_c7JBJrWcJUDA@mail.gmail.com
> The original GOOPS implementation had a somewhat crazy feature that an
> application of a generic function to a specific argument list first
> resulted in the standard MOP procedure for finding a set of applicable
> methods and, second, from this/these generated something called a "cmethod"
> (compiled method) which, in turn, was stored in a cache as well as applied
> to the list of arguments.
Sounds like the traditional implementation of CLOS, so I wouldn't call
that "crazy". The reaon is/was that finding the set of applicable
methods and combining them into the resulting "cmethod" was expensive,
hence the need for a cache.
Stefan "who does the same in Emacs's CLOS implementation"
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2016-12-03 14:52 ` Native code generation and gcc Mikael Djurfeldt
2016-12-04 10:09 ` Helmut Eller
2016-12-04 15:17 ` Greg Troxel
2016-12-05 16:18 ` Lluís Vilanova
2016-12-11 18:09 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2016-12-11 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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