Re: [Sbcl-help] Cannot defvar a symbol?

[Leslie P. P. <sk...@vi...>]

Giovanni Gigante wrote:

> Yes, that's cleaner, but...
> Some time ago I had an application that needed a lot of configuration
> parameters shared by many functions. Speed was an important issue for
> this app, so I did some quick benchmarks. Turned out that using global
> variables was the fastest solution.

But surely that's an optimization that should be reserved for
special cases, and then only in a late stage of development.

  Leslie

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