proposal for object-oriented dispatch on sign

>>>>> "Barton" == Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> writes:

    Barton> The testsuite calls sign about 1.5 million times--I didn't
    Barton> try to time sign. Since kill(all) erases $timer data, it's
    Barton> not easy to time functions using the testsuite.

This is where you could probably use the profiling facility of your
Lisp implementation.  With CMUCL, I would just say :lisp
(profile:profile $sign), run the testsuite and then run :lisp
(profile:report-times)

(Untested.)

I'm sure other Lisps have some kind of profiling facility, and if not,
there's always the (fairly) portable METERING package.

Ray