Andreas Eder wrote:
> On 4/5/08, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> Oh sure, every little improvement helps. But given this data, why do we
>> worry so much about memq? Is memq a big problem for other Lisp versions?
>>
>
> Well, depending on the lisp implementation replacing memq gives me
> between 7% and 10% speedup when running the test-suite. I think
> this isn't so little.
>
What lisp did you use? Declaring memq inline for cmucl and sbcl (and
maybe others?) would have been just as effective and way less work.
Ray