Re: [Matlisp-devel] How expensive is CLOS object creation ?

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

On 3/12/12 10:18 AM, Akshay Srinivasan wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Now that I have a reasonable amount of support for matrix slices (and
> more). I can now do neat stuff like
>
> ? (defvar a (make-complex-matrix 2 2))
> ;; Get the second column
> ? (defvar e (make-sub-matrix a 0 1 2 1))
> ;; Set the imaginary part of the second column to pi
> ? (copy! pi (imagpart! e))

This is pretty cool stuff!
>
> without without ever having to copy the store. I guess this is okay
> for user interaction; but I guess there are costs involved with
> creating new CLOS objects though. Should this sort of stuff be avoided
> inside core functions then ?

I think it really depends on the clos implementation.  I would say for
now to just ignore it unless you're creating lots of clos objects in a
tight loop.  That's probably not a good idea, plus that generates a lot
of garbage.

Ray

>
> Akshay
>
> P.S: I will merge my changes and push things to matlisp-cffi, after
> sending this mail.
>