-\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))))