eign-Types">Foreign Types</a>
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<h3 class="section">6.5 Optimizing Type Translators</h3>

<p><a name="index-type-translators_002c-optimizing-73"></a><a name="index-compiler-macros-for-type-translation-74"></a><a name="index-defining-type_002dtranslation-compiler-macros-75"></a>Being based on generic functions, the type translation mechanism
described above can add a bit of overhead.  This is usually not
significant, but we nevertheless provide a way of getting rid of the
overhead for the cases wh