RE: abstraction layer where?

[Volkmar Uhlig]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niels Möller [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 9:37 PM
>
> "Volkmar Uhlig" <address@hidden> writes:
> > I believe you try to tweak the wrong knobs. It is not the programmer
> > which should do this hand-optimization but the IDL compiler. The IDL
> > compiler should know in what cases it is more efficient to use MRs 
> > and when to use indirect strings.
> 
> Then the input to the IDL compiler should contain some hints, saying
> that for a particular variable length array, the small length case is
> important. I don't think we want the kind of optimizations Marcus is
> describing applied to *all* variable length arrays.

Right, the IDL can be annotated. Have a look at Andy's thesis, Section 4.5 
"Usage specific optimizations", in particular 4.5.3 "Annotated data types".

- Volkmar