Re: More on compiler optimization

Martin Simmons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:27:49 +0100, Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie) said:
> 
> > On 12 Feb 2025, at 20:21, Paul Werkowski (as pw at snoopy dot qozzy dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Also it helps to avoid generic CL library functions such as cl:cis.
> > 
> >  (flet ((%%cis (x) (complex (cos x)(sin x)))) ....)
> 
> Why would be (cis) less efficient than calling (complex (cos x) (sin x))?

It is because the compiler doesn't currently optimize cis for double-float, so
it will call it out of line with extra unboxing and boxing.

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Martin Simmons
LispWorks Ltd
http://www.lispworks.com/

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