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catch/throw performance loss
- To: Kent M Pitman <KMP@MIT-MC.ARPA>
- Subject: catch/throw performance loss
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@CMU-CS-C.ARPA>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1984 19:50:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- Sender: FAHLMAN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA
All that random users need to remember is that Catch tags are supposed
to be symbols. We generalized it a bit beyond that, because we could do
this at *NO* extra implementation cost and it made some odd cases a bit
cleaner to use some fresh-consed object other than a symbol. But rather
than generalize to a case that IS going to cost more, I'd retreat to
allowing symbols only.
-- Scott