Re: [GSWHackers] Future of GnusStep WebObject

[Helge Hess]

On 03.03.2004, at 14:34, David Ayers wrote:
> Interesting... I actually prefer the approach that gnustep took in 
> solving the main issue within -base/NSNumber which returns cached 
> versions common NSNumber instances.  This solves the root of this 
> particular problem for a wider range of applications.  Yet 
> optimization within GSWeb and GDL2 is needed.

This is a different optimization only solving a small part of the 
problem (actually its not really related to the issue that base types 
must be piped through objects). It still has significant method call 
overheads:
a) it has to call a method to create an object or retrieve a cached one 
for
   a base type
b) it has to call the actual method
c) it has to turn the object back into a base type
At least three times slower for a very common case (in practice you 
need to add cache management overhead etc).

This is only one of the association optimizations done in SOPE, there 
are various others. Feel free to look into the source, though fast code 
is not necessarily readable (but well worth the effort the more complex 
code due to the high usage of this code).

best regards,
  Helge
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