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Subject: Re: Optimising passed function
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* Heiko Schaefer <heiko.schaefer@swissonline.ch>
| I am passing a function to another function and would 
| like to ensure fastest compilation. 
| How can I tell the compiler that the passed 
| function returns a double-float?

  (declare (type (function <arglist> double-float) <variable>))

  See the entry for the system class function in the hyperspec.

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