Okay, so I haven’t actually posted anything about Sheeple in a while.
Sheeple took a break for a few weeks, but development is up to full steam again. There’s some shiny new special sauce going on under the hood now, with some -very- promising early results.
See this paste for some picobenchmarks on various implementation. Notice: direct-property access is now as fast as slot-value on CCL. :)
Unfortunately, the rest of Sheeple doesn’t perform that well quite yet. The new fancy secret sauce allows for a lot of optimizations that weren’t done before. Once this code is stabilized and tagged as 3.0(!), I’m bringing back a bunch of different caching schemes Sheeple was using for dispatch. Tonight’s benchmarks were promising — I think Sheeple may actually be able to perform better and faster than optimized CLOS implementations such as CCL’s and SBCL’s.
We’ll see. We’ll see…
The Quick Sheeple update… by sykosomatic, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.