Re: [spr8255] Labels are slow!

[john@linus.mitre.org]

Could someone from Franz explain some of the issues involved with this
example, so we users can look for analogous problem spots in our
current code?  Is the problem simply the extra function-call overhead,
or is it that the LABELS functions are closures, necessitating the
dreaded COPY-FUNCTION.

I tend to use internal functions a lot, and I'd really like to know
what the tradeoffs are, if they're as dramatic as this example seems
to indicate.

John Burger
john@mitre.org