Re: byte-code optimizations

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:05:30PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> What defsubst* does is treat the argument as a kind of "lexically scoped"
> variable, but only in very limited ways.  I.e. the
...
>      (defsubst* foo (x) (symbol-value x))
> 
>      (foo y) => (symbol-value y)
> 
> whereas our optimization won't be able to do that because it can't assume
> a "somewhat lexically scoped" semantics.

I vote for saying "you're not allowed to treat defsubst argument bindings as
normal dynamic bindings, and if you have tons of code that does, well screw
you, you're probably a crappy programmer anyway."

Maybe a bit more diplomatically.

-Miles
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