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LOAD-BYTE and DEPOSIT-BYTE
- To: JonL at PARC-MAXC
- Subject: LOAD-BYTE and DEPOSIT-BYTE
- From: MOON at SCRC-TENEX
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1982 22:05:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp at SU-AI, Earl A. Killian <EAK at MIT-MC>, Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
I won't throw any bombs if we decide to put these in. I vaguely remember
a meeting where we discussed compiler optimization such that
(LDB (BYTE 1 I) W)
would be equivalent to
(LOAD-BYTE 1 I W)
or whatever the arguments are. This would make LOAD-BYTE fairly
superfluous.