Re: [grt-talk] Accuracy bug

[Simon Adameit]

Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Simon Adameit wrote:
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> > Ok, I just wasn't sure what reasons you had for not using methods, I
> > didn't know that it is too slow.
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> The thing is that methods have runtime dispatch. (Or so I believe.
> CLOS is still a bit of a blind spot for me.) This is a very nice feature,
> but it hurts the performance. Happily enough there are functions when speed
> is more important than flexibility. I think we could benefit from using
> CLOS (and methods) in the user level API's, though. Have to do some
> thinking.

I think we have to seperate the user stuff from our object contstructors 
 more, perhaps definig some macros the user can use.

> > Will you test classes vs. structs?
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> Yeah. When I find the time. If you have the time... please do!
I'll have much time next weekend but there I want to work on new primitives.