8 Slot-Value

The ANSI Common Lisp standard specifies slot-value, (setf slot-value), slot-boundp and slot-makunbound for standard-objects, and furthermore suggests that these be implemented in terms of Metaobject generic functions slot-value-using-class, (setf slot-value-using-class), slot-boundp-using-class and slot-makunbound-using-class. To make performance of these operators tolerable, a number of optimizations are performed, at both compile-time and run-time¹⁰.