1.0.4.66: Undo D-X changes in 1.0.4.63

[sbcl.git] / OPTIMIZATIONS

diff --git a/OPTIMIZATIONS b/OPTIMIZATIONS
index d234ce3..631501c 100644 (file)
--- a/OPTIMIZATIONS
+++ b/OPTIMIZATIONS
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ Initialization of stack-allocated arrays is inefficient: we always
 fill the vector with zeroes, even when it is not needed (as for
 platforms with conservative GC or for arrays of unboxed objectes) and
 is performed later explicitely.
+
+(This is harder than it might look at first glance, as MAKE-ARRAY is smart
+enough to eliminate something like ':initial-element 0'.  Such an optimization
+is valid if the vector is being allocated in the heap, but not if it is being
+allocated on the stack.  You could remove this optimization, but that makes
+the heap-allocated case somewhat slower...)
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 #28
 a. Accessing raw slots in structure instances is more inefficient than