On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:39:49 -0800, Francogrex wrote:
> Read the Research and Development article by Didier Vern:
> http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/research/verna.06.imecs.pdf Probably
> nothing really new for the experts, but still very good information.
I realize that these optimizations can be useful in some cases, but my
experience indicates that time spent improving the algorithm has
higher returns, even for numerically intensive programming. When I
started using CL, I read a lot of these articles, but now I find that
I almost never resort to these kind of optimizations: the SBCL
compiler is smart and generates reasonably fast code without extra
tweaking.
Tamas