Because I don't feel like getting an account on common-lisp.net just yet
Note! Both patches on this page are now a part of cl+ssl. Unless your version is prior to July 2007, you already have them. (Whether you want them or not. Mwuahahaha.)
Simple, really. I needed their functionality. And I haven't bothered to get an account on common-lisp.net, so I have no commit access.
cl+ssl has some serious speed issues on CLISP. For small requests, it's not enough to worry about, but on larger requests the speed issue can mean the difference between a 15 second download and a 15 minute download. And that just won't do!
On clisp, cffi's with-pointer-to-vector-data macro uses copy-in, copy-out semantics, because clisp doesn't offer a with-pinned-object facility or some other way of getting at the pointer to a simple-array. Very sad, I know. In addition to being a leaky abstraction, wptvd is really slow.
The simplest thing that can possibly work: break the abstraction. I introduce several new functions (buffer-length, buffer-elt, etc.) and use those wherever an ssl-stream-*-buffer happens to be used, in place of the corresponding sequence functions. Those buffer-* functions operate on clisp's ffi:pointer objects, resulting in a tremendous speedup--and probably a memory leak or two.
While I've made an effort to ensure this patch doesn't break other implementations, if you have code which relies on ssl-stream-*-buffer returning an array you can use standard CL functions on, it will break on clisp under this patch. But you weren't relying on cl+ssl internals anyway, now were you?
cl+ssl-clisp-speedup-patch.tar.gz contains several new files, and a patch for existing files. Just unpack it in your cl+ssl directory, and apply cl+ssl.patch.
Sometimes you want to use SSL client certificates--they're better than passwords and easier to lose! It seemed like a good idea at the time?
The patch adds two arguments to (make-ssl-client-stream), :certificate and :key, identical to the same arguments in (make-ssl-server-stream).
My e-mail address is pix@kepibu.org.