General Performance Hints

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General Hints to improve LISP Performance


This chapter will collect and summarize several hints, ideas and tricks to improve performance of Lisp-based application code.

Of course, not every hint will match every Lisp application, as topics, conditions, environment etc. vary to much; but it could give some orientation and serve as a starting point ...

Naturally, this chapter is also dedicated for future extension ... the amount of hints, ideas and suggestions will likely grow over time.

Please find the performance hints as categorized as they are related to :


System Variables

Entity Creation + Manipulation



Tables and Dictionaries

Transactions + Display Control



Code Structure

Other Hints










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