Re: reducing time overhead of text display (in 1.1)

• To: chyde@BBN.COM
• Subject: Re: reducing time overhead of text display (in 1.1)
• From: Chris Richardson <cer@ide.com>
• Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 16:32:53 -0800
• Cc: SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com, clim@BBN.COM, jmorrill@BBN.COM
• In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Dec 1993 19:07:16 EST." <9312210027.AA07813@ide.com>

>    For example, every time I call DRAW-LINE*, clim has to take apart all those
>    keywords just in case I want dotted lines (even though I never do).  Using
>    &rest or &key increases the cost of a function call by as much as an
>    order of magnitude.

CLIM implementations typically transform calls to draw-foo* into calls
to medium-draw-foo* and perhaps with-drawing-options so at least some
- if not all - of the keyword manipulation is done at compile-time.

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