[info-mcl] Wood on MCL 5.1

[Terje Norderhaug]

On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
> I think WOOD has a great potential to be used for application data
> caches, like those frequently kept in the ~user/Library/Caches folder.

Note the new P-MAKE-INSTANCE function in WOOD for MCL 5.1 (see  
persistent-clos.lisp). It creates a persistent class instance  
directly in the database, bypassing making the instance in memory and  
then storing it in the database.

This function is useful for example when parsing a file into data  
structures in the WOOD database, reducing consing/gc with associated  
speed benefits.

-- Terje Norderhaug