Re: Is the following behavior defined by the standard or implementation specific?

"Thomas F. Bur***" <tbur***@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Shouldn't senseless insertions of type declarations be considered a
form of premature optimization anyway?

Not necessarily premature, but definitely a bad idea. It seems to be
one of the common foolish approaches that Lisp newbies have when
trying to speed up the inner loop of their image processing / dna
sequencing / whatever application.

How would you approach speeding up the inner loop? I spent some time a
few months back working on the SPOJ contest with Lisp, and while in some
cases it made sense to look at rolling my own string input and so forth,
normally it ended up being an exercise in declarations.

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victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no
sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would
have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my
right hand. --Robert E. Lee
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