Re: Finding the applicable methods...

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:02:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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On 15 Jul 2026, at 01:20, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Another thing enabled by having a NODE class is error checking for suitable arguments.
> 
> However, there comes a trade-off between excessive error checking against errors that you know will never be encountered. That checking saps speed of execution and also wastes the memory on compiled code that will never be needed.

This is surely what (declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)) is for.

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