Re: Objective-C and Smalltalk; speed of message send

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 10 août 04, à 22:57, Marcus Müller a écrit :

> On 10.08.2004, at 18:47 Uhr, Travis Griggs wrote:
>
> > keyed tallies. This would replace an existing 2D array in strict C. 
> > We decided to use NSStrings as the keys. To maintain a backwards 
> > bridge, we took the old 2D access indices and turned them into a 
> > string. And then stored/set them in the NSMutableDictionary via 
> > those. The performance was not impressive. I got some pointers from 
> > this
>
> I believe that this can be safely considered to be a classic now. Read 
> http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/artikel/Optimization/opti-7.html and 
> be surprised how worse things are in real life. ;-) Although GNUstep 
> isn't discussed in the article, probably some of the same problems 
> reside in gnustep-base.

Indeed, the article is quite interesting :)
Any idea of what's done on gnustep side ? could be worth investigating 
.. :)

thanks,

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Nicolas Roard
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