Another bit of info.  Every time I've seen this they've all had the
| same construct:
| 
|      (let ((x <init>))
|        (declare (double-float x))
|        <some code that setf's x>
|        x)
| 
| For some reason, it seems that, because x is returned, the compiler
| thinks that x needs to be boxed everywhere instead of just boxing the
| final x.

This has been around since the start of the x86 port. It makes a simple
dot product function much slower than need be.

Paul



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