Re: Shouldn't records be sequences?

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 12/04/2020 12.30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> but that's only motivated by the need for backward compatibility with
> code which used to expect `cl-defstruct` to use vectors instead of
> records.

Isn't performance part of it too?  A recent example: I have a list of records 
that I display to users, using a custom sort order (a list of record fields).  
It's convenient to be able to go from list of fields to list of array offsets 
once, and then use those offsets in the comparison function (this is similar to 
what I'd do with C structs).