abstract-arrays VS fast-generic-functions

Compare abstract-arrays vs fast-generic-functions and see what are their differences.

abstract-arrays

A structure and some facilities for an abstract-array structure in common lisp (by digikar99)

fast-generic-functions

Seal your generic functions for an extra boost in performance. (by marcoheisig)
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abstract-arrays fast-generic-functions
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5.1 0.0
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Common Lisp Common Lisp
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abstract-arrays

Posts with mentions or reviews of abstract-arrays. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-04.
  • Common Lisp polymorphic stories.
    13 projects | /r/lisp | 4 Nov 2021
    And, there won't be a way to properly understand what exactly PF (or CL) misses without immersing myself into a ML-style something, is there? As in, I get some parts of what you are saying; I myself had to (ab)use deftype and gensym intern for another library for providing (limited) parametric types; but I also fail to see something seriously wrong with it, given that it plays nicely with cl:declare, cl:typep and cl:subtypep for the primitive use case of single value type checking, declaration and with some additional things (compiler)macro based optimization.

fast-generic-functions

Posts with mentions or reviews of fast-generic-functions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-04.
  • If Lisp is so great
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2024
    * CLOS being bolted on instead of truly integrated in the language; would need a JIT and something like https://github.com/marcoheisig/fast-generic-functions on system classes to go fast enough, Julia kinda does this (but it hurts my eyes)
  • Common Lisp polymorphic stories.
    13 projects | /r/lisp | 4 Nov 2021
    About static typing and generic functions, are there limitations to fast-generic-functions built over sealable-metaobjects too? I felt that reasonable, albeit it takes away the dynamic nature of the objects after sealing.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing abstract-arrays and fast-generic-functions you can also consider the following projects:

ccl - Clozure Common Lisp

ctype - CL type system implementation

lisp-interface-library - LIL: abstract interfaces and supporting concrete data-structures in Common Lisp

polymorphic-functions - A function type to dispatch on types instead of classes with partial support for dispatching on optional and keyword argument types.