We should optimize constant literals, in particular keywords. This optimization means that we will have to decide whether to make identical? slower by testing for keywords (this means it's probably a bad idea to continue to inline it) or to provide a special keyword-identical? that does the right thing.
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David Nolen
January 5, 2016 at 10:36 PM
this was completed long ago for keywords & symbols - other data structures can be handled by separate issue.
Sean Grove
August 27, 2013 at 10:24 PM
There's another interesting twist while using piggieback + brepl that relates to a missing constants_table.js. Not sure what causes it (haven't found a way to repro), but only happens in a few circumstances, so the repl still mainly works.
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We should optimize constant literals, in particular keywords. This optimization means that we will have to decide whether to make identical? slower by testing for keywords (this means it's probably a bad idea to continue to inline it) or to provide a special keyword-identical? that does the right thing.