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Re: reducing time overhead of text display (in 1.1)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 13:27 -0500
From: Scott McKay <SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com>
Believe it or not, CLIM has a compile-time conditional that allows the
CLIM implementor to choose between three types of coordinates: T,
SINGLE-FLOAT, and FIXNUM. Right now, CLIM uses T. T and SINGLE-FLOAT
work equally well in Genera, but CER and I verified that using
SINGLE-FLOAT is a dog under Allero (and probably Lucid, too) because it
guarantees that you have to cons, whereas when CLIM uses T, CLIM often
manages to use fixnums. CLIM 1.1 always used FIXNUM, but I never quite
finished debugging the FIXNUM case in CLIM 2.0.
Some implementations have a SHORT-FLOAT that doesn't cons. Perhaps
CLIM could use SHORT-FLOAT internally whenever it's available.
Lawrence G. Mayka
AT&T Bell Laboratories
lgm@iexist.att.com
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