Re: Accessors specified in a defclass don't seem to use slot-value in Lucid

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From: Jeff Dalton
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:01

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> With regard to the performance implications of doing it this way, Trent
> Lange has already pointed out that the newest PCL does this efficiently.
> It's too bad that earlier versions of PCL (one which some commercial
> implementations are based) had the bug where they didn't implement this
> aspect of the MOP properly.

Ordinary accessors can be efficient by not going through
slot-value-using-class, but what about the accessors that
_do_ have to go through slot-value-using-class?  How big
a price do you pay for actually using the MOP?

-- jd

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