Anecdote or data point

I saw that there was some argument over how much slower slot access is than struct access, so I just decided to measure it naively. I made a two slot sruct and a CLOS version of a CONS cell with car and cdr slots and I ran LTAK using regular lists, `lists' made from CLOS conses, and `lists' made from structs. Here are the results: D:\repositories\clos-benchmark>sbcl --script run-benchmarks.lisp…