Tiny CLOS: Faster slot accesses?

From: Pascal Costanza (costanza_at_web.de)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:36:20 +0100

I have downloaded Tiny CLOS from
http://www2.parc.com/csl/groups/sda/projects/oi/software.html

The readme says the following, among other things:

"Even though the Tiny CLOS implementation itself isn't optimized, this
MOP is amenable to optimization, using techniques like those mentioned
in AMOP. In fact, the slot access protocol used in this MOP is such
that it should be possible to get better performance than is possible
with the CLOS MOP."

Does anyone what this means in detail? I haven't yet read the AMOP book,
so it's hard for me to figure out what the differences are...

Thanks in advance for any hints.

Pascal 

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