DEFTYPE
  • Spent a lot of time understanding LISP code optimizations

    • Our applications require only fixnum operations

    • Boxed objects are unnecessary

      • Slow

      • Create Garbage

      • GCL intermediate C code is not portable
  • Type declaration is needed for optimal code generation

    • But (type (signed-byte 32) x) is rather verbose

    • DEFTYPE would make declarations more bearable
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