Re: [Sbcl-devel] Use of signals in PROBE-FILE

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Hans Hübner <ha...@hu...> wrote:

> Lastly, there may be additional costs for setting up the signal
> handler

There is a cost, but it should be mostly noise if there are syscalls involved.

Apropos, now that we have (whee!) dynamic extent structures, we should
be able to stack-allocate handlers and restarts, making all sorts
condition handling code quite a bit faster in the common case.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus