I am experimenting with a very simple optimization that replaces the
discriminating function of slot accessors based on the following criteria:
- The generic function should only contain methods of the type
standard-reader/writer-method
- The methods should be specialized on classes whose metaclass is
standard-class
- The optimization assumes that under those circumstances the user is not
allowed to extend the slot-value-using-class method (according to AMOP) and
thus the slot accessor can avoid calling slot-value.
- If all this applies, the discriminating function finds out the slot that
has to be read and its location (both are cached in a thread-local hash)
and reads/writes to the slot.
The preliminary figures cut down the execution time in FPRINT/PRETTY
(gabriel's benchmark) by 50%.
To the MOP experts here, does this all sound reasonable?
Juanjo
P.S.: My idea is also to add compute-discriminating-function generic
functions to ECL.
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