-;;;; This file contains things for the extensions package which can't
-;;;; be built at cross-compile time, and perhaps also some things
-;;;; which might as well not be built at cross-compile time because
-;;;; they're not needed then. Things which can't be built at
-;;;; cross-compile time (e.g. because they need machinery which only
-;;;; exists inside SBCL's implementation of the LISP package) do not
-;;;; belong in this file.
+;;;; This file contains things for the extensions packages (SB-EXT and
+;;;; also "internal extensions" SB-INT) which can't be built at
+;;;; cross-compile time, and perhaps also some things which might as
+;;;; well not be built at cross-compile time because they're not
+;;;; needed then. Things which can't be built at cross-compile time
+;;;; (e.g. because they need machinery which only exists inside SBCL's
+;;;; implementation of the LISP package) do not belong in this file.
;;;; This software is part of the SBCL system. See the README file for
;;;; more information.
:format-control "~@<~A: ~2I~_~A~:>"
:format-arguments (list prefix-string (strerror errno))
other-condition-args))
+\f
+;;;; optimization idioms
+
+(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
+
+ ;; Byte compile this thing if possible.
+ (defvar *optimize-byte-compilation*
+ '(optimize (speed 0) (safety 1)))
+
+ ;; This thing is externally visible, so compiling meta-information
+ ;; is more important than byte-compiling it; but it's otherwise
+ ;; suitable for byte-compilation.
+ ;;
+ ;; (As long as the byte compiler isn't capable of compiling
+ ;; meta-information such as the argument list required by functions
+ ;; (as in sbcl-0.6.12, anyway), it's not suitable for compiling
+ ;; externally visible things like CL:INSPECT even if their speed
+ ;; requirements are small enough that it'd otherwise be OK. If some
+ ;; later version of the byte compiler learns to compile such
+ ;; meta-information, we'll probably change the implementation of
+ ;; this idiom so that it causes byte compilation of the thing after
+ ;; all.)
+ (defvar *optimize-external-despite-byte-compilation*
+ '(optimize (speed 1)
+ ;; still might as well be as small as possible..
+ (space 3))))