On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Chris Osborne wrote:
Anyhow, here’s the solution:
I just found that enable-smallcons is on by default (for some major performance
gains when I looked into it). In this scenario, there’s a set of macros
ECL_CONS_PTR, ECL_CONS_CAR etc. defined in object.h to access the cons pointers
directly, not sure how I missed this earlier, but at least I’ve found it now
(hopefully the info will also show up in the mailing list archive in a web
search if anyone else needs it).
I think the recommended interface lives in cons.h, where CAR and CDR are
defined as macros that, if ECL_CAN_INLINE is true, resolve to essentially
inlined functions that call the macros ECL_CONS_CAR and ECL_CONS_CDR. The
only thing they do extra is test if the argument is NIL and do the
appropriate thing in those cases (where ECL_CONS_* would probably fail).
You might want to check if for your application the tiny overhead of
checking for NIL is so troublesome that you're willing to sacrifice
robustness against NIL arguments and readability (it doesn't get much
better than CAR and CDR for asking of the car and the cdr of a cons)
Kind regards,
Nils
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