Re: goops and memoization

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:

> Currently, compile-method only makes sure the method has a local
> next-method binding (specific to this method cache entry) if that is
> needed.  However, there are plans to let it make powerful
> optimizations of the code, with great potential of reducing overhead.
>
> It seems to me that what you need to do is to run the tail of the
> cmethod (BODY-FORM1 ...) through your memoizer.  That should fix it.

(An alternative solution is to implement compile-method in C,
memoizing the source code while walking through it.  In fact, that
could mean that we don't need to call procedure-source => no need to
unmemoize code.)