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…
Tags: optimization, sheeple