Re: unboxed structure fields (or class slots)

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 7 Jan 2026, at 13:44, Yuri Davidovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It would be an efficient way but using SoAs in Lisp with multiple arrays still may put you to some disadvantage compared to lower level languages that support type casting

That's true, in theory at least.  In practice I suspect not so much for most code people write rather than code people *could* write.  Having looked at significant amounts of code written for machines which have press releases when they get installed, it's often not all that.

That's not saying people *can't* do better in languages which can cast: just that most of the time they don't.

--tim



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